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Hardcover The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool Book

ISBN: 0312383096

ISBN13: 9780312383091

The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool

(Book #3 in the The Highly Effective Detective Series)

"Deserves mention with the wackiest of today's comic crime novelists… similar to Donald E. Westlake or Carl Hiaasen." -Booklist on The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs In this third installment of Richard Yancey's hilarious Teddy Ruzak P.I. series, Teddy's latest client is a good looking dame with long blond hair and great gams. Her husband, she suspects, is stepping out on her, and she hires Teddy to nail the cheater. Then the client disappears. Is this a divorce case-or a murder?

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Rated 4 stars
Highly Effective and Highly Entertaining!

Theodore "Teddy" Ruzak isn't your average, every day private investigator and it's not just because he doesn't have a license or because his idea of finding out if his client's husband is having an affair is to call and ask him. Ruzak is out of the ordinary because the man is almost entirely composed of wit and heart. What he lacks in investigative skill and experience he makes up for with a dogged determination and a quick...

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Rated 5 stars
A joy to read

Why anyone would say this was boring is beyond me. This series has been one of the most entertaining that I have read. What else can you ask for: an uneducated, literate, persistent "non-detective" who has only truth & justice in his sights. For me these books are a joy to read, and I always wait for the next one. Cleverly written. Too bad this writer is not as appreciated as he should be. Write on, Mr Yancey & count...

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Review of The Highly Effective Detective Plays the Fool

I was up until 3 a.m. last night. I wasn't worried about finding a job, though I probably should have been. I wasn't worried about needing to have my roof repaired, though I should have been. I wasn't even worried about the paint job my house is going to need. Instead, I was worried and concerned about private investigator Teddy Ruzak and how he was going to stay in business with a state bureaucrat trying to close him down,...

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