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Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Private InvestigatorsHaving thoroughly enjoyed Yancey's first entry in this "detective" series starring the bumbling, ineffectual, but charming and ultimately triumphant Teddy Ruzak, I picked up the new story with eager anticipation. I was not disappointed at all. Yancey continues to add detail to Teddy's daily life and background on how he got to be the way he is. Even when not officially "detecting", but only consulting, Ruzak not only unravels...
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Teddy Ruzak, the "Highly Effective Detective", has a bent for musing on philosophy, a knack for falling short of his ambitions, and a keen and refined ability to take what appear to be unadventurous circumstances and make them fraught with unexpected complexities. He also has a deadpan narrative style which conceals, and then adds nuance to, his ability to unravel a mystery. I had not read the introductory volume in this...
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For the second time Teddy Ruzak fails the Tennessee private investigator licensing exam; he also failed the police exam. Already despondent, he knows the two strikes your out state rule. He is notified to shut his practice. Teddy leaves his office only to notice a homeless man just outside; he gives the man his hat. The next day, Teddy returns to his office only to see the same man dead in the ally behind the building...
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