Thursday, June 25, 2009

Try a "Rat Pack Mystery" on for Size

Robert J. Randisi's Hey There (You with the Gun in Your Hand) is one of those rare gems in the mystery world. This book truly lives up to its name-- it is the third installment in Randisi's "Rat Pack Mystery" series. If you love reading about the Rat Pack (and/or the time period in which they existed), you must give this book a try! Randisi captures perfectly the timbre of the times in which the members of the Rat Pack existed. He also makes his portrayal of the Rat Pack members believable. The reader finishes the book thinking that he/she really knows Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. This story is set in Las Vegas in 1961, at the Sands Casino where pit boss Eddie Gianelli is asked by Frank Sinatra to help get rid of an embarrasing photo of Sammy. The pay-off and photo pick-up goes hay-wire and soon Eddie and his friend, New York tough guy Jerry Epstein, are up to their elbows in dead bodies! Randisi's novels resemble the drugstore pulp-fiction of past times, but there is enough description of glitz, glamour, corruption and crime to please any mystery fan. The library also owns the first book in the series, Luck Be a Lady, Don't Die.

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