Chicago P.I. Carl Good looks for a cheating husband's mistress and ends up tangling with the mob in Milton Ozaki's potboiler Murder Doll. Ozaki, notable as an early Japanese-American crime novelist, writes in a rat-a-tat style, featuring a typical gumshoe of that era who is quick with a gun and a quip.
The story races along improbably--especially a sequence where Good is imprisoned at a nudist camp in northern Indiana--but is genial enough and surely enjoyable for fans of 50s pulp novels. I wouldn't seek out Ozaki again, but I'm sure if I came across another of his novels I would enjoy it.
I bought this for beloved Kindle for only 99 cents and read a good chunk of it in one fell swoop.
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