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Irritating though he was, Lester Henderson had it all when he strode up to rehearse his keynote address in the darkness of a downtown theatre. Widely tipped to be next mayor and possessing a nice line in catalogue-casual daywear, Henderson stood four-square facing his glorious future. But five shots later and his lifeblood was seeping away - gunned down by persons unknown from stage-right... At that point he became Ollie Weeks' problem. But this savage crime is suddenly overshadowed by a deed even more repugnant. Ollie's life work is his novel. Honed by countless rejection letters, it is finally ready to be released to the general populace. But then the one and only manuscript disappears, leaving Ollie to head off in pursuit of the thief. a thief who is convinced that Ollie's work contains the secret location of a hoard of hidden diamonds...… (more)
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A bonus is that we get to read Ollie's brief novel because the thief is convinced the novel is really a secret report to the police commissioner and could lead him to a large cache of drugs. As the thief reads each section and searches for the location of the drugs, we get to read the same section. Based on the his first novel, Ollie should not quit his day job.
“Ollie was an equal opportunity bigot. He felt anyone who didn’t look or sound the way he
A fun read, even with all of the awful beliefs of Ollie!