Buyer Beware Alo Nudger Series Book 1 edition by John Lutz Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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Kidnap proves only the prelude to a diabolically clever scheme of fraud and murder in this vivid tale of taut suspense.
Private investigator Alo Nudger didn't have to think twice about accepting the $2,500 fee from Gordon Clark, whose seven-year-old daughter had been "kidnapped" by his ex-wife, Joan. After all, the pay was good, and the job seemed simple enough bring young Melissa back from Florida to her frantic father. Nudger arrives at his destination to find only an empty house but soon locates Melissa in the safekeeping of a neighbor and reckons his job is done... or is it?
For now Joan is missing, and the man she and Melissa had been living with is murdered. Nudger's new proposition from an equally distraught parent—Joan's father—is not so readily appealing as before. Fifty thousand dollars to locate a missing person is a tempting sum, indeed—assuming Alo Nudger can stay alive long enough to enjoy it.
"One of the best and most unusual novels in the history of private eye fiction." —Cedar-Rapids Gazette. Lutz's bestselling novel SWF Seeks Same was released as the major motion picture, Single White Female starring Bridget Fonda.
About the Series
St. Louis private eye ALO NUDGER is perhaps the most Chaplinesque of fictional gumshoes. Where other P.I.s are hardcases living on cigarettes, booze, broads and danger, Alo survives (just) on antacid tablets (it was his nervous stomach that forced Alo to resign from the police force) and grocery coupons.
Buyer Beware Alo Nudger Series Book 1 edition by John Lutz Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
The couple of negative reviews here don't acknowledge the fact that this book was the first Nudger novel, published in 1979. Lutz hadn't fully developed the character yet, so you won't find many of the dry, bleak, witty "Nudgerisms" here that typify the later novels. No Danny's Donuts, either. Lutz was finding his way with a new character whom he would develop to a much greater extent in the subsequent novels.Still, if you're a Lutz fan, it's worth a read. It's a good story with an interesting plot. I always like to read series authors' early stuff just to see how the protagonist has evolved over the years.
(I read the Kindle version, which has a cheap price price because it's early Lutz).
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Buyer Beware Alo Nudger Series Book 1 edition by John Lutz Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
A man hires Alo Nudger to retrieve the daughter his ex-wife absconded to Florida with. Nudger finds the daughter and winds up tied up in another case entirely, a case involving her mother, a millionaire's missing daughter, and the mysterious deaths of businessmen all over the country. Can Nudger find the millionaire's missing daughter or is it already too late?
Over the last six months or so, I've been exercising more retraint than usual in regard to buying books. Unfortunately, I had a hankering for a detective yarn over the weekend and discovered I didn't have any on my unread pile. I decided to give John Lutz's Alo Nudger a chance and I'm glad I did.
Nudger's not your typical detective. He specializes in retrieving children that have been kidnapped by one of their parents following a divorce. He lives in a trailer, just barely getting by. He's not handsome, brave, tough, or quick-whitted. He's smart, though, and tenacious. He reminds me of Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder to a degree. Both are former cops that left the force and both are driven by guild for past sins. In Nudger's case, he was having an affair with an alderman's wife and booted from the force. Shortly thereafter, his wife left him and took their two kids. She remarried awhile later, only to be killed in a car accident with her new husband and Nudger's two kids.
When I started Buyer Beware, I had no idea how complex it was going to get. He found Clark's missing daughter in just a few pages, before getting ensnared in the web around the child's mother. Like Lawrence Block, Lutz had me guessing for most of the story. I had no idea what was going on until the last forty pages or so. I felt like I was learning the details along with Nudger and could never manage to get ahead of him in the story of Gratuity Insurance and the connections it had to various players in the story.
Another thing I liked is that Lutz resisted the temptation that many detective fiction writers succumb to. While there were two or three attractive women in the story, Nudger didn't wind up in bed with any of them. Or even get close. I hate when writers force a hookup just to do it.
I guess I'd better wrap this up or the review is going to wind up being as long as the book. While the down on his luck detective thing has been done, John Lutz manages to inject enough life into Alo Nudger that I'll be looking for more of Nudger's cases in the future.
I started with the first in the series and am not sure if I'll continue. The story just didn't catch my interest and didn't move fast enough. After reading some of Michael Prescott's book, I guess I'm spoiled and want fast action and suspense.
READABLE
just avg.
For those who love the classic Nudger and his humid office over Danny's Donuts, this one is a let down. There are none of the sly Nudger metaphors and no real interactions with the traditional social circle. This was probably an early Nudger adventure and it may be a good starter but the cast is shallow and there are many details left to the imagination. Nudger gets swindled a bit in the end, as does the reader.
The couple of negative reviews here don't acknowledge the fact that this book was the first Nudger novel, published in 1979. Lutz hadn't fully developed the character yet, so you won't find many of the dry, bleak, witty "Nudgerisms" here that typify the later novels. No Danny's Donuts, either. Lutz was finding his way with a new character whom he would develop to a much greater extent in the subsequent novels.
Still, if you're a Lutz fan, it's worth a read. It's a good story with an interesting plot. I always like to read series authors' early stuff just to see how the protagonist has evolved over the years.
(I read the version, which has a cheap price price because it's early Lutz).
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