Monday, August 3, 2020

THE EIGHTH DWARF - Ross Thomas





Los Angeles, 1946.  It was ex-OSS man Minor Jackson who finally pulled the drowning dwarf out of the actor's swimming pool.  It was also the start of a relationship that would pitch him into a post-war whirlpool of corruption and murder.

No one before or since has has written a ' caper' like Ross Thomas.  He has never written a bad sentence or a dull paragraph.  All his books are immensely entertaining, hard to find believe it or not.  I see Briarpatch has been made into a TV series so hopefully there is a resurgence in the availability of his stories.

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