- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Dell Pub Co (Oct 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0440236436
- ISBN-13: 978-0440236436
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,552,964 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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She lied. He knows. Sometimes the truth can kill.
Dead Easy
Threatening notes. Grisly packages promising worse to come. On a dark street outside a nightclub called Easy, a man is gunned down--by a handsome killer everyone thought was dead. Someone is stalking club owner Dalliance Oglethorpe, someone from a past she thought she had left behind. Flap Tucker, Dally's knight in not-so-shining armor, prides himself on seeing through reality's illusions. But what he discovers about his longtime love will catch him blind.
There is a lot Flap doesn't know--and a lot he has to find out, soon, about himself and the woman he thought he knew best. But Dally wants Flap to keep his distance. She thinks he may have had a hand in murder. And Flap has reason to suspect Dally herself. If they are to make it through the long, dark night, Flap must find the real killer, a real motive, and the real truth behind Dally's lost years--and the secrets she has never been able to reveal--before it's too late.
Dead Easy
Threatening notes. Grisly packages promising worse to come. On a dark street outside a nightclub called Easy, a man is gunned down--by a handsome killer everyone thought was dead. Someone is stalking club owner Dalliance Oglethorpe, someone from a past she thought she had left behind. Flap Tucker, Dally's knight in not-so-shining armor, prides himself on seeing through reality's illusions. But what he discovers about his longtime love will catch him blind.
There is a lot Flap doesn't know--and a lot he has to find out, soon, about himself and the woman he thought he knew best. But Dally wants Flap to keep his distance. She thinks he may have had a hand in murder. And Flap has reason to suspect Dally herself. If they are to make it through the long, dark night, Flap must find the real killer, a real motive, and the real truth behind Dally's lost years--and the secrets she has never been able to reveal--before it's too late.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
There are plenty of odd couples in the detective fiction currently packing the shelves but none more entertaining than Flap Tucker and Dalliance Oglethorpe. This story breaks new ground for the troublesome twosome, with a shocking and completely unexpected insight into their shared past which suddenly and violently comes stomping right up into their present. All the best ingredients of the "Easy" books reapppear. Hal's cricket bat, Marcia's cooking, Detective Huyne and more crooks than you can share a bottle of fine French wine with. If you haven't made the aquaintance of Flap and Dalliance it's high time you did. You might want to start way back on their first outing, just to get your head ready for the surprises in this one. Better still, order the set from you-know-where while the prices are so low. You won't read any more entertaining books this side of Christmas.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Southern "Thin Man" a Joy to Read
19 Feb 2001
Format:Mass Market Paperback
What happens when Nick Charles drops his martini, pours himself a glass of Cotes de Rhone and starts studying Zen? He becomes Flap Tucker, one of the most engaging detectives it has been my pleasure to find. Replacing urbane zingers with southern-fried wit, in this 5th of the delightful series, Flap learns as much about his galpal Dalliance as about a murder-by-body-parts. Disembodied hands, great "perps" like Jersey Jakes, and past lives keep you from putting this book down except to refill your wineglass.
I've loved all this series and this was one of the best. Dalliance still walks into a bar like she was on ball bearings and Flap...well...he still manages to make detecting look Zen-Easy. Pick up a great bottle of red, buy this book, and turn your phone off. It won't disappoint.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Dead Easy
25 Nov 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Phillip De Poy brings Flap Tucker back with a complex plot and entertaining characterization. Flap is stuck between a rock and hard place as many signs point to Dalliance (his love interest) as being intimately involved in murder. As Flap discovers more about Dally's 'past lives' he becomes more troubled. The locale (Atlanta, Georgia) is brought alive as Flap tries to make sense of the nonsensical.
Great characterization and plot creation. The best Flap Tucker yet. Don't miss it!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A droll Zen mystery-fun read
14 Oct 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
At four in the morning, Atlanta's Easy nightclub owner Dalliance Oglethorpe calls her on-and-off lover Flap Tucker to rush over immediately. One of his three rules of life is to come when Dally calls. He quickly arrives and takes a strange looking package from Dally. Flap opens it to see a severed hand with a note about this being the first installment. A stunned Dally tells Flap it means nothing and to stay out of it.
Instead of having Flap, a renowned investigator, make inquiries, Dally hires Jersey Jakes, a risky proposition to say the least. Meanwhile, an obnoxious patron harangues Dally at her club. Unable to stay away or leave as he has done numerous times when the commitment level seemed imminent, Flap begins his own investigation, which takes him to their mutual hometown of Invisible, Georgia in the southern side of the state. He begins to piece together her years when he fled her for the safety of the Army, not quite understanding the danger of the final installment.
The Flap Tucker novels are becoming recognized as great stories with the latest entry bound to be considered one of the best regional mysteries of the year. Flap remains a zany Zen master filled with intelligence, humor, but also frustration this time. Dally shows the cracks in her past. The introduction of a teenage girl who appears to be a perfect intern for Flap augments the tale by further humanizing the hero. Phillip DePoy makes reading so EASY to enjoy that fans that devour DEAD EASY will seek the earlier works of a superb author.
Harriet Klausner
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