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In this bestselling book that inspired the hit movie by the same name, starring Frank Sinatra, an apparent suicide forces a PI to reconsider his most famous case
Joe Leland returned from World War II with a chest full of medals, but his greatest honor came after he traded his pilot’s wings for a detective’s shield. Catching the Leikman killer made Joe a local hero, but the shine quickly wore off, and it wasn’t long before he left the police force to start his own private agency. Years after his greatest triumph, Joe has a modest income and a quiet life—both of which may soon fall apart.
When Colin MacIver dies at the local racetrack, the coroner rules that he took his own life, but his widow knows better. Because MacIver’s life insurance policy doesn’t cover suicide, his wife is left broke, desperate, and afraid for her safety. She hires Leland to find out who could have killed her gentle, unassuming husband—a simple question that will turn this humble city inside out.
- Sales Rank: #484072 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-12-02
- Released on: 2014-12-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
“A big, sprawling book, expansive in invention, opulent in detail.” —The New York Times
“Powerful and immense . . . and intriguing and provocative work.” —Chicago Daily News
“This book is an original. It is daring . . . Our fictional private eyes usually come with skins like crocodiles. Leland is something else.” —San Francisco Examiner
“An astounding climax . . . The author has a vast knowledge of the intricacies of the human mind.” —Boston Herald American
“A masterpiece.” —Dallas Times Herald
“Dark, subtly provocative . . . Thorp writes it all with vivid, atmospheric clarity.” —Kirkus Reviews on Jenny and Barnum
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“A big, sprawling book, expansive in invention, opulent in detail.” —The New York Times
“Powerful and immense . . . and intriguing and provocative work.” —Chicago Daily News
“This book is an original. It is daring . . . Our fictional private eyes usually come with skins like crocodiles. Leland is something else.” —San Francisco Examiner
“An astounding climax . . . The author has a vast knowledge of the intricacies of the human mind.” —Boston Herald American
“A masterpiece.” —Dallas Times Herald
“Dark, subtly provocative . . . Thorp writes it all with vivid, atmospheric clarity.” —Kirkus Reviews on Jenny and Barnum
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
A Crime Novel That Breaks New Ground
By Frank Hickey
This is one of the most unusual detective stories that you will ever read. The writer grew up in the Bronx section of New York
City, from what I hear. His father ran a private eye agency. Thorp worked there. So he knows the turf. It shows. The minute details
make up a private investigation differ from some government inquiries. Thorp takes the reader on a tour of how these things
work. Nothing in this book seems fake. As a former print reporter, private eye and police officer myself, I see only true
notes in this story. In this book, the detective listens and sifts for the truth. He studies everyone that he meets on the case. He
shows that the detective's best weapon is his own mind.
The care and the word choices make this book stand out. Thorp worked on his characters. It shows. Like some young writers,
he may become too involved with his characters for some readers. No matter. I enjoyed the detail. You come away from this
book feeling that you know the characters as if they were real people. Some writers can pull this off. Thorp suceeds.
You can pick it up and re-read it, as I have done, over the years. You gain a new experience each time. The characters speak
in a kind of lingo that marks who they are and what they believe it. This book moves. It is exciting. It challenges you. And the
surprises on each page held me. Minor characters are still given their piece to speak and to impress us.
Joe Leland, the hero, is a pained and honest man, struggling through a corrupt landscape. He sees things with a clear eye and
suffers for it. His marriage crumbles in steps that nobody could predict. He lives with the pain as honorably as stoically as
possible.
Re-reading the book, the reader will see things that he or she missed before. It is one of the charming quirks about this book.
As our lives progress, they may start to mirror Joe's existence as well. Policing, the war, his marriage, parenting and everything
that claws at him also seasons him. Humor laces the book as well. It is not dark but illuminating.
It is easy to see why they made a movie of this book. It is a large Balzac-style novel of mid-century Northeastern America. Sinatra
played Leland in the movie with the same blend of humor, compassion and sorrow etched on his face. It came from the book.
Like the book, it may seem dated now. It is a realistic novel of how characters lived and survived from 1940 to 1965. But the
writing stays fresh. It mixes policing with family drama and does a wonderful and touching job of it.
Few readers know that this same character became the Bruce Willis character in the movie "Die Hard." Maybe they should
backtrack to where the "Die Hard" hero John McLane came from from. He emerged from Joe Leland.
The writer's life is a gamble.
Thorp wrote "The Detective" when he was under 30 years old. It became a best-seller in many languages, was available
everywhere and made into the movie mentioned above. It seemed that nothing could stop Thorp.
At the age of 62, from what writers tell me, Thorp died while living on a friend's couch in Studio City, Los Angeles. At that time,
his books were hard to find. They should not be. Thorp is someone worth reading and enjoying and passing on to your friends.
---Frank Hickey, writer of the Max Royster crime novels in Pigtown Books
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Long and Occluded Mystery.
By Steven Daedalus
It has to be one of the "wordiest" books I've ever read. It's filled with the interior monologue of Thorp's detective and ex-cop, Joe Leland. And for Leland, every conversation -- every GLANCE -- is a metaphorical duel of wits. What is the other character thinking, and why, and how can I get around him? No, not a duel of wits but a battlefield in which everyone lies or misrepresents the truth. And it's all described in a blizzard of words.
You think I'm fooling with you, that I'm not telling you the truth? Maybe my judgment is flawed? Is that why your brow suddenly knotted? You just blinked your eyes twice in a row, rapidly. I don't know if you realized that. Or perhaps you did it on purpose to make me think you thought that I thought you were lying. I don't know you at all but it would be like you to do that. I forget what it was that it would be like you to do but, believe me, based on my years of experience as a police officer and now private investigator, it's exactly the thing you would be likely to do, whatever it was. Nothing gets by me.
Here's a quote. Joe Leland is meeting someone in a restaurant for a typically murky conversational exchange. The setting itself is of no consequence.
"The restaurant was nearly empty: a middle-aged couple by a window overlooking the avenue, three businessmen in the most distant corner. The room needed paint and new flooring. By modern standards the tables were too big and the aisles too wide. There were three waiters in sight, and the youngest, a hawk-faced man in his forties with shining slicked-down hair, motioned them to a table in the center section."
Now, that's the description of a restaurant that has no role to play in the story. The waiter with the slicked-down hair has no role to play either, although that doesn't prevent Joe Leland from going on to have a duel of wits with HIM too.
Here's a quote from Herman Wouk's "The Caine Mutiny." It describes the beginning of an important conversation between a defendant and his lawyer. Note the concision with which the restaurant setting is sketched in.
"I'm hungry," said the lawyer. "Where can we get some chow and talk about it?"
"There's a cafeteria over at Pier 8."
"Come along."
Maryk shrugged, reaching for blue trousers at the foot of the bed.
"If you're going to plead guilty," said Greenwald -- his voice was pitched high over the clatter of cutlery and tin trays, and the gabble of hundreds of Navy Yard workers feeding themselves amid steamy odors of tomato soup and cabbage, and human being -- "then the whole thing becomes a formality."
The plot of Thorp's novel is terribly convoluted and, it seems to me, awfully dated too. It treats sex with such delicacy that reading about love making is like watching one of those soft-core porno films with billowing transparent drapes, lots of warm candles, and unidentified hands caressing unidentifiable grooves of an unidentified body. Along the lines of, "He moved his hand. 'It didn't take you long to go there, did it?'" And the sex is in fact important. The whole STORY is about a closeted homosexual.
But don't expect anything like the movie with Frank Sinatra as Joe Leland. The only thing they have in common are a couple of names and that gay element.
I managed to finish it but the result was a feeling more of relief than satisfaction, as if I'd just finished that job of insulating the attic that I'd been putting off for more than a year.
It could have been an interesting story if it had been about one third as long as it is, if it hadn't been written in a style common in the days before the invention of photography when every description of persons or things needed to be gotten down in detail, if it had had some poetry or was an exercise in style, like "Lolita." As it stands, it's a long hard slog.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
fANTASTIC.........
By Frances Ryley
Frank Sinatra was the lead in the movie, which stayed true to the book. It was fantastic. Glad that I finally got to read the original story.
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