- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books (Mm); Reprint edition (Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671799819
- ISBN-13: 978-0671799816
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.4 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,616,915 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Publisher Thurman Boucher paid an obscene sum for the Cambridge Daily Banner, a fly-weight local paper. When the paper's former owner turns up dead, Tom Bethany does some freestyle investigative reporting, attempting to bring Boucher to his knees. But the publisher is ready to deliver some punishing holds of his own.
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Detective Tom Bethany Knows What To Do!
22 Jun 1999
Format:Paperback
This was the first novel I read in the Tom Bethany series and I must say that I'm gald it was the first! After reading this book, I was on a mission to find and read every Tom Bethany mystery I can! And so far, I've found and read almost all of them. Jerome Doolittle does an excellent job in creating and developing characteers and plots, keeping the reader totally interested and aware of what's going on at all times. He's so descriptive in his writing style that it feels like you're right there in every scene with the coolest detective around, Tom Bethany! I particularly love the fighting and interrogation sessions of Tom Bethany's "victims". In this novel they are VERY entertaining. Doolitle's dialogue between characters is easy and smooth, like in a movie! You know who's talking and what kind of tone they're using. Truly excellent. The writing is pleasant, fun and easy to read. Doolittle doesn't bog you down with a lot of unecessary information. He definitely creates chratceters you either love to hate or love to love! If you want to be entertained by a mystery with a good plot and great characters, that keeps you wanting more, Kill Story is the way to go. Or any other Tom Bethany mystery for that matter! The Tom Bethany Mystery series are definitely ones to look for when you're in your favorite book store. I totally reccomend Kill Story for your reading pleasure.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Dateline Deadline
28 May 2001
Format:Paperback
The wry, likable Tom Bethany, a bit of a mystery man himself, sets out to find out whether an unscrupulous newspaper owner is responsible for the death of the paper's former owner and along the way, deliver justice to the bad guys.
There may be more information about the newspaper industry and the issue of chain ownership than some may like, but even if you don't care that your local paper might be owned by a bloodless corporation 3,000 miles away, you can appreciate Bethany's methods, self-deprecating style, and the author's very smooth delivery of a good story. The entire story has a ring of truth, populated by far too many less than scrupulous people trying to scrape by in life. Author Jerome Doolittle delivers a great deal of amusing comment on politics and contemporary culture, though you may like it a bit more if you're a Democrat than a Republican. Everyone, though, who has suffered through watching the wrong people advance in the corporate culture should appreciate this sentence, offered in a side riff about office politics and the military: "You can learn a lot about what's wrong with the world by watching how the scum beats the cream to the top."
Doolittle brings a fascinating series of careers that feed the colorful detailsof his novels: speechwriter for Jimmy Carter, war correspondent, café owner in Laos. Kill story is the sixth in the Tom Bethany series. Read him for whatever reasons, but read him for a wonderfully good time and yet another twist on the standard private investigator story.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Ode to Jerome:
16 July 2001
Format:Paperback
Dear Jerome,
Don't mean for this rhyme to be shoddy
You certainly might find it oddy
You made my whole year
When what should appear
That wonderful book Scissors, Body.
Your writing skills I have been sold
My boasting your talents gets old
I tell all my friends,
Their ears I must bend
Some threaten me with Strangle Holds!
But still I remain cool and smug
Your books I continue to plug
You are funny and gallant
You have all the right talent
You deserve a humongous Bear Hug.
Your publishers should take great stock
"Out of Print"!--Your fans are in shock!
Are their heads filled with lumber?
We want rank, files and number
We'll put all of them in Head Lock(s)
Your fans need to know who to sway
We want to get into the fray
Although we don't wrestle
There must be some vessel
To teach us the Half Nelson Soiree
I really don't want to get gory
But I've called Montel, Phil and Maury
The stifling of writers
Has made fans turn fighters
There should be no way to Kill Story(ies).
Bombing Officer should be on top
You have written not one single flop
I hope you did guess
I wish you success
Just promise that you'll never stop.
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