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|  Herr Schnoodle & McBee - $24.95
This is a rather odd little book.
In form, it's familiar enough. A private eye has just established his business. He endures the slow days until clients start trickling in. He solves some cases. He meets some people, among them a homeless woman with a mysterious past, a glamorous reporter who works on a low-life, unethical rag; a handful of neighborhood characters, a few paying clients. So far, so good, but the tone of the book is somehow all wrong ... even strange.
Pleasantly strange, though.
If anything, "Herr Schnoodle & McBee" reads like a screen treatment of a Raymond Chandler novel prepared by Frank Capra at his most misty-eyed and goo-ily populist. It's "Mr. McBee Goes to Town to Become a P.I." It's all sort of, well, warm ... and cozy. Mr. McBee's mean streets are the type of mean streets that might be prowled by Elwood P. Dowd and his friend Harvey, that six-foot tall, invisible rabbit.
And a big, ugly, lovable dog that's at the center of everything.
Mr. Dowd once expounded on the fact that he had been told that to get along in this world, he had either to be very smart or very pleasant. He had chosen pleasant.
This book has chosen pleasant, too. I think it deserves four pleasant stars.
LEC/AM/8-08
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