- Paperback: 287 pages
- Publisher: Uglytown Productions; 1 edition (July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0972441212
- ISBN-13: 978-0972441216
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.9 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,645,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I'D JUST PUT CREAM IN MY COFFEE, WHEN Miss Jenkins ran into the office screaming that our insurance agent down the hall just had his head chopped off with a Samurai sword. Read the first page
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I'D JUST PUT CREAM IN MY COFFEE, WHEN Miss Jenkins ran into the office screaming that our insurance agent down the hall just had his head chopped off with a Samurai sword. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Lots of fun!, 8 Aug 2003
By woodstock_ap "woodstock_ap" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sayonaraville: A Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins Mystery (Paperback)
This Colbert's second entry in a very entertaining series set in Seattle in the late 1940's, following the debut novel "Rat City." Part screwball comedy, part private eye, part loving homage to the early days of crime fiction, part word play - I could go on and on listing the features of the book which pleased me.Jake Rossiter and Miss Jenkins return. Miss Jenkins has recently been promoted by Jake to junior partner, and is anxious to do a good job on her first case - locating the criminal behind the destruction by arson of a store owned by a Japanese American businessman. In the meantime, the insurance agent who works in an office near Rossiter's detective agency has been beheaded in his office, and Jake is hired by his widow to find the killer.
This is a quick, delightful read, filled with the slang of the late 40's and atmospheric trips to strip joints, dark alleys where danger lurks, suspicious cinnamon rolls, an overly amorous client, and the bitter memories of WWII veterans who fought in Europe and the Pacific, learning rather grudgingly to trust again.
Colbert is on a roll here - and I hope it lasts. The book jacket reports he is working on a third entry.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Curt Colbert vs Jake Rossiter, 5 July 2003
By Donald D. Thompson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sayonaraville: A Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins Mystery (Paperback)
Curt Colbert displays a very unique writing style. Even though his principle character, Jake Rossiter often speaks with short cliches - he thinks vividly with a much higher language. It is apparent that Jake is a highly self-educated man but is more comfortable while dealing with people in the language of his youth.Sayonaraville is an outstanding tale that transcends the story line. It displays a softness in Rossiter's character that was not evident in "Rat City". Jake Rossiter has grown. He even manages to put aside the prejudice developed while fighting in the Pacific at the end.
One has to wonder about the influence on him from Miss Jenkins. Curt Colbert teases us with a developing relationship between Miss Jenkins and Jake. She has gone from his girl "Friday" to his partner. And was that just a hint of jealosy that I detected when other men paid attention to her? It will be very interesting to see where this relationship is going to go. In her own way, Miss Jenkins is every bit as tough as Jake.
Sayonaraville is an excellent novel in its own right and it is more than just adequate in backing up Curt's Shamus award nominee "Rat City". I am already waiting to see where Curt takes me next. Curt - don't make me wait so long for your next installment. I need more - now!
Donald D. Thompson
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It's all in the head., 2 Dec 2003
By J. Glenn Evans - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sayonaraville: A Jake Rossiter & Miss Jenkins Mystery (Paperback)
It's all here!! A riveting tale of murder, racketeering, money-laundering, corrupt cops, hit men, and strippers all told against the backdrop of the post-World War II period in Seattle's Chinatown with its dark alleys, secret passageways and secret ways. Colbert has us jump right in with the story when Rossiter is confronted by the headless body of his insurance agent. Rossiter, coolheaded as always, hopes the dead man thought to write a policy on himself. Why did Rossiter's insurance agent lose his head (literally) to a rusted samurai sword? Why would anyone kill his insurance agent, especially one who is bald, middle-aged, and kindly? The lingering bitterness of the war feeds the suspicions of Rossiter, private eye and veteran of the war in the Pacific. He wants nothing to do with the Harry Hashimoto case taken by Miss Jenkins, now his junior partner. She can sink or swim on her own. Rossiter has a more important case to solve. In this world you can't afford to lose your insurance agent. Tension builds when Rossiter butts heads with his old nemesis, hit man Eddie Valhalla and his gun moll, Zazu. Speaking of heads, just how many more hits to the head can Rossiter take? Between shady cops and shifting antagonists, maybe he should take to wearing a helmet. When Harry Hashimoto's brother, Frank, an embittered, decorated war hero of the famed all-Nisei 442nd Regiment, takes the bullets intended for Rossiter, saving the life of the private eye, Rossiter feels his own prejudices slip away. Armchair sleuths will have a field day with this one. Sayonaraville is a must-read book and a real page-turner. Makes a great gift for mystery-lovers!
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