Dinero Del Mar The Drifter Detective Book 5 edition by Garnett Elliott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Jack Laramie finds himself in the middle of a rural beauty contest that’s as crooked as a busted fiddle. Things get worse from there, and a chance encounter in the Corpus Christi drunk-tank leads to a new case—on Texas’s dazzling Padre Island. A big, old mansion full of scheming rich folks, lawyers, and psychics is just the beginning. Jack survives the ‘trip’ of his life, but is his craftiness a match for the privileged upper crust?
Dinero Del Mar runs about 24k words, the longest Drifter to date, and features an ending that will forever change the series. Don’t miss it!
Dinero Del Mar The Drifter Detective Book 5 edition by Garnett Elliott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
In the fifth Drifter Detective novella, the story is even tighter and more thoroughly crafted than the earlier ones. To put it more bluntly, this book is damn good. Pretend you are back in the pulpy fifties. Stick a detective in the wild lands of Texas with no permanent abode. Just a De Soto and a trailer. Fill the book with deadpan humor and you have the makings of Garnett Elliott’s Drifter Detective series.“Dinero Del Mar” finds Jack Laramie in a few new pickles. He finds himself involved in a Miss Texas Grapefruit beauty contest where he meets a gal, who he couldn’t say not to, if she asked him to swim the Rio Grande against a posse of water moccasins. Elliott captures the majesty and the sublime ridiculousness of the Texas beauty contest and how wrapped up the contestants and the sponsors were in winning the damn thing.
From there, Laramie finds himself, quite by accident, in the drunk tank, where he stumbles into his next client and finds himself on a Texas ranchette governed by a wacky matron who surrounds herself with hippies and beatniks of all stripes and sizes.
Of course, what mystery story would be complete without murder, mayhem, and other kinds of assorted misery.
There’s enough assaults, threats, swindlers, hustlers, drunks, and the like here to make your head spin, but the story is told in a gentle manner just as if you were back in Texas, passing time before that open fire.
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Dinero Del Mar The Drifter Detective Book 5 edition by Garnett Elliott Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Short story cheap thrill writing.
"Dinero Del Mar" is the latest installment, and my first foray, in Garnett Elliott's "Drifter Detective" series. "Dinero" is an excellent hardboiled story set in 1950s Texas. Elliott has a knack for fully-realized characters, atmosphere and setting. Private detective Jack Laramie uses his wits to get by, and so does Elliott the writer is adept at keeping the story humming along without mindless violence. I like gunfights as much as the next pulp lover, but Elliott manages to create suspense through his characters and their interactions. "Dinero" is a well-written and -plotted story; a great read. Elliott is the real deal.
The fifth book in The Drifter Detective series finds Jack Laramie hired by a man he helped in a jail cell to get his mother, a rich eccentric, out of the clutches of a gold digger.
It becomes much more when he discovers more going on in the household.
And it's topped off with an ending that changes everything.
Most excellent.
This entry in the Jack Laramie series is well told. Here we see a man who can have moments of bad decision followed by tough consequences and then redeption. All told in an well paced cross between western and Walter Mosley style detective story.
I have so enjoyed this journey with Jack Laramie - and all the nodding to pulp fiction. This is the best of the series, to me. Imaginative and heartbreaking, both.
Jack is always the same which is fun, you can predict how he's going to act but the situations are so varied. Not sure I believe the HEA ending, it was kind of contrived but still made me happy. The stories take about an hour to read but they feel book like, not short story like, which was a good thing to me as I don't like short stories.
Can't go wrong with spending a dollar on one!
This little book was fun. I've been a fan of hardboiled detective pulp for thirty-some years; this fits in nicely.
The premise of a drifting detective is not new, nor is the idea of a down-on-his-luck detective. These are not criticisms--there is very little that's new in the entire detective genre. What counts is how well each book or story is done.
This book is definitely done more than well enough for me to want to read more. In fact, I already have two more that I'm looking forward to.
The character is interesting, and I want to see how other writers handle him. (The ploy of having more than one writer of a series character is nothing new in the history of pulp fiction--The Shadow, for example, had multiple writers.)
As a very welcome bonus, this book is quite well edited, which is more than I can say about the great majority of the books I've read from .
Jack Laramie is a detective that lives out of a horse trailer that he pulls behind his Desoto as he travels around Texas. He gets caught up trying to keep a local beauty pageant honest which leads him to helping a young man chase off a scam artist trying to con his way into a wealthy window's will.
This is the third Drifter Detective story that I have read and the second by this author. (Different authors write different installments.) The individual books don't have to be read in order and each stands alone.
This book is written in three parts with each part representing a new problem for Jack. I didn't particularly care for the first part because it didn't seem to serve any real purpose. (It does serve a purpose in setting up the ending though.) The second and third parts make the story. Jack has a real mystery to solve which gives him a place to shine. He lives up to the noir detective that he is meant to be.
In the fifth Drifter Detective novella, the story is even tighter and more thoroughly crafted than the earlier ones. To put it more bluntly, this book is damn good. Pretend you are back in the pulpy fifties. Stick a detective in the wild lands of Texas with no permanent abode. Just a De Soto and a trailer. Fill the book with deadpan humor and you have the makings of Garnett Elliott’s Drifter Detective series.
“Dinero Del Mar” finds Jack Laramie in a few new pickles. He finds himself involved in a Miss Texas Grapefruit beauty contest where he meets a gal, who he couldn’t say not to, if she asked him to swim the Rio Grande against a posse of water moccasins. Elliott captures the majesty and the sublime ridiculousness of the Texas beauty contest and how wrapped up the contestants and the sponsors were in winning the damn thing.
From there, Laramie finds himself, quite by accident, in the drunk tank, where he stumbles into his next client and finds himself on a Texas ranchette governed by a wacky matron who surrounds herself with hippies and beatniks of all stripes and sizes.
Of course, what mystery story would be complete without murder, mayhem, and other kinds of assorted misery.
There’s enough assaults, threats, swindlers, hustlers, drunks, and the like here to make your head spin, but the story is told in a gentle manner just as if you were back in Texas, passing time before that open fire.
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