It's Halloween, and John Justin Mallory's partner, Winnifred Carruthers, has been so busy preparing for the biggest holiday of the year (in this Manhattan, anyway) that she seems short of energy and pale. Mallory is worried that she's been working too hard. Then he notices the two puncture marks on her neck...On this night when ghosts and goblins are out celebrating, detective Mallory must stalk the vampire who has threatened his partner and killed her nephew. With the aid of Felina, the cat-girl, Mallory and Carruthers investigate clubs and lairs that only seem to exist on this one night of the year.His hunt takes him to Creepy Conrad's Cut-Rate All-Night Mortuary, where he questions the living and the dead; to the Annual Zombies' Ball, to learn more about the undead; to the Hills of Home Cemetery, where the vampire sleeps by day; and to Battery Park, where all of Manhattan's bats come to feed and sleep. Along the way he meets a few old friends and enemies, and a host of strange new inhabitants of this otherworldly Manhattan. Locked in an intriguing battle of wits with the millennia-old vampire, Mallory has until dawn if he is to save his trusted partner.
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"Mallory remains a great character, the classic world-weary knight in trenchcoat armor, with a strong supporting cast...It's clear Resnick is having fun with the characters, setting, and mystery itself. Readers who enjoy a lighthearted caper through familiar-but-not territory will find this a pleasant read. Recommended." -- Gumshoe, August 2008 "Mike Resnick has created a fine character in Stalking the Unicorn and carried him forward. Mallory is a detective who would be a cliche if Resnick hadn't meant him to be one. He's every detective Humphrey Bogart or ever played. For me, a guy who loves detective stories (and especially 1940s noir pictures), this is the perfect blending of the genres. he's based on every successful detective who's ever made it to page or screen. That's one of the fun bits, finding all the stuff that you know Resnick put in his pocket from others' noir leavings .It's an awesome little thing. [Stalking the Unicorn] certainly reads better to the detective fan in me than the fantasy fan in me. Mallory is awesome. He's a real detective, a hard-bitten dick who does it all. I just love him, [in Stalking the Vampire] even more than I did in the first novel. So, there's no question that Mallory has more legs to him. Resnick could give us a long series of Mallory novels, and it'll never be Mallory that'll lets us down." --Some Fantastic, August 2008 "Urban Fantasy. Detective Wizard(s). Mafioso Sorceress. Vampire Hunter. P.I. in Fantasyland. Paranormal Romance. Whatever you call it, books with some or all of those elements is one of hottest subgenres of Speculative Fiction today. This just goes to show that Mike Resnick was ahead of the ballgame considering his first John Justin Mallory novel, Stalking the Unicorn, was originally published in 1987. Terrifically entertaining novel. a welcome re-addition to the Urban Fantasy subgenre that is so popular right now. Adorned with a terrific pulpy cover by Dan Dos Santos, the physical book has a great look and feel. Even better, Resnick and Pyr published simultaneously with this reissue, Stalking the Vampire, which is next on my plate. Hopefully, we'll see even more Mallory stories." --SFFWorld September 2, 2008 (also mentioned at Rob's Blog o'Stuff blog). "This sequel to Stalking the Unicorn reintroduces us to Resnick's straight from the pulps PI...The humor is reminiscent of Robert Asprin's Myth series but written through a Raymond Chandler lens." -- Sacramento Book Review, September 2008 "With affectionate riffs on vampires, romance, fantasy, and crime fiction, Resnick crafts another funny, inventive, distinctive and sneakily surprising tale. More, please!" --Interzone, Issue 218, October 2008 "It's obvious that Resnick had fun writing these lighthearted Mallory stories and with Stalking the Vampire, that enjoyment easily spills over to the reader.2 --SFSignal, October 2008 "Like the previous novel, this book is full of humour, puns, and innuendo. Resnick definitely has a skewed outlook on life and for a bit of light reading, you cannot go far wrong with this series. May there be many more of them." -- SFcrowsnest.com, Issue 183, February 2009 "I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this book is easily the funniest bit of fantasy detective fiction I've read all year. Mike Resnick is a master of rapid-fire dialogue and comedic timing, and he applies these techniques to great effect here. If you happen to be looking for a comedic blend of fantasy and mystery, you can't go wrong with Stalking the Vampire. It's a well-told story with a solid plot, excellent characterization, an entertainingly strange setting, and plenty of laughs, worth the price of admission." -- SF Site, February, 2009 "His hunt takes him to a creepy mortuary, to a Zombie's bail, and to the lairs of the undead in this fine novel of intrigue." -- California Bookwatch, The Midwest Book Review, January 2009
About the Author
Mike Resnick (Cincinnati, OH) is the author of Dog in the Manger, the first Eli Paxton mystery. The all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction, he has won five Hugos (from a record thirty-six nominations), plus other major awards in the United States, France, Spain, Croatia, Poland, and Japan. He is the author of sixty-eight novels, more than two hundred fifty stories, and two screenplays, and he has edited forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-five languages.
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This is the sequel to Stalking the Unicorn, published several years ago. That book was inventive, playful and a delightful flow of the Author's wacky interpretation of a New York with Trolls on the subway and lecherous leprechauns on the streets.
This book is the same setting and cast, with the fedora-hatted and quick-witted PI John Justin Mallory pursuing an evil (as opposed the 99% other law abiding vampires) in Manhattan on Halloween. However some of the magic of the first book is missing, with the author revising many of the same locations as the prior book but lacks some of his earlier inventiveness, though it is still there in flashes.
Overall, I was glad to continue reading of the alternative Manhattan and its denizens, but this book compares only fairly to the first book in the series.
This book is the same setting and cast, with the fedora-hatted and quick-witted PI John Justin Mallory pursuing an evil (as opposed the 99% other law abiding vampires) in Manhattan on Halloween. However some of the magic of the first book is missing, with the author revising many of the same locations as the prior book but lacks some of his earlier inventiveness, though it is still there in flashes.
Overall, I was glad to continue reading of the alternative Manhattan and its denizens, but this book compares only fairly to the first book in the series.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Thank you
23 Jun 2009
By Shala Kerrigan
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
For getting this out on Kindle so soon after I hit the "I'd like to read this on my Kindle" button.
I read the first book, Stalking the Unicorn years and years ago when it first came out, and while I was making a list of my favorite fantasy detective stories, I found this one.
John Justin Mallory is a Manhattan detective who found himself in an alternate fairyland type Manhattan with monsters, demons and other mythological beings and creatures. He has a partner who was a very well known hunter of monsters and a cat-girl office cat who's attitude is very catlike.
It's as much rollicking good fun as the first book with just as unlikely a cast of characters. The story is solid and enjoyable, and John Justin Mallory is a detective you feel sorry for and root for during the book because of all the troubles he's seen. The dialogue is quick and funny, at times laugh out funny.
Looking forward to the 3rd book in this series!
I read the first book, Stalking the Unicorn years and years ago when it first came out, and while I was making a list of my favorite fantasy detective stories, I found this one.
John Justin Mallory is a Manhattan detective who found himself in an alternate fairyland type Manhattan with monsters, demons and other mythological beings and creatures. He has a partner who was a very well known hunter of monsters and a cat-girl office cat who's attitude is very catlike.
It's as much rollicking good fun as the first book with just as unlikely a cast of characters. The story is solid and enjoyable, and John Justin Mallory is a detective you feel sorry for and root for during the book because of all the troubles he's seen. The dialogue is quick and funny, at times laugh out funny.
Looking forward to the 3rd book in this series!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hard boiled PI, with about a 25 degree twist to the strange
15 Nov 2008
By Dave in Missouri
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
John Justin Mallory, a tough, wise-cracking Big City PI who prefers brains and assistance to guns and brass knuckles, and uses a fast $5.00 bribe rather than a fast smack to the face.
Good thing, since some of these hoods aren't overly affected by bullets or fist fights, but everyone could use a saw buck.
He works the streets of a Manhattan that is recognizable but takes some strange loops and curves from time to time.
Familiar places have names that aren't quite what he remembers, and streets sometimes appear only when you're actually looking for them.
These streets are infested with trolls selling things. If only the things they were selling were even remotely things you'd want to buy.
Businesses are surpassingly weird...but quite useful at times.
Resnick has a writing output like Niagara Falls, but of them all, I like John Justin and his friends and enemies the most.
With lots of good plotting, some inside jokes, and people you'd recognize, it makes for a enjoyable, memorable read.
This is one you'll want to read again.
Good thing, since some of these hoods aren't overly affected by bullets or fist fights, but everyone could use a saw buck.
He works the streets of a Manhattan that is recognizable but takes some strange loops and curves from time to time.
Familiar places have names that aren't quite what he remembers, and streets sometimes appear only when you're actually looking for them.
These streets are infested with trolls selling things. If only the things they were selling were even remotely things you'd want to buy.
Businesses are surpassingly weird...but quite useful at times.
Resnick has a writing output like Niagara Falls, but of them all, I like John Justin and his friends and enemies the most.
With lots of good plotting, some inside jokes, and people you'd recognize, it makes for a enjoyable, memorable read.
This is one you'll want to read again.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
great sequel
18 Feb 2009
By Robert N. Trumpis
- Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
This book is a great sequel to Stalking the Unicorn. I hope this becomes a series.
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