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Let's All Kill Constance (Hardcover)

by Ray Bradbury (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow & Company (Jan 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0060515848
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060515843
  • Product Dimensions: 22 x 14.7 x 2.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,093,588 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Old Master In Fine Form, 26 Sep 2005
This review is from: Let's All Kill Constance (Mass Market Paperback)
This is the third in Bradbury's wonderfully eccentric trilogy of detective novels, which began with 1984's 'Death Is A Lonely Business' and continued with 'A Graveyard For Lunatics' back in 1990. Whereas the second book was for me a bit of a let-down, lacking the rich atmosphere of the first, this new volume is a delight. Shorter and far pacier than either previous book, it kicks off with a dramatic encounter on a stormy night and races on for two hundred and fifty hugely entertaining pages. Our unnamed author (Bradbury, obviously) teams up with his pal, the irascible Detective Crumley, to investigate the disappearance of silent film-star Constance Rattigan, who has received two Death Books filled with the names of the deceased and soon-to-be-deceased...but death keeps beating them to the punch.

Perhaps sensing that the second book lacked pace and drifted, Bradbury dives straight in here and doesn't let up. All three books basically forego much in the way of plot, emphasising quirky character detail instead. This new book is no exception, except that Bradbury has really come up trumps here. Age eighty three, he really has produced his best dialogue - the characters leap into three dimensions and sparkle with wit and humour. Indeed there is a gleeful self-consciousness in the writing that comes through time and again, right from the opening 'It was a dark and stormy night - is that one way to catch your reader?' When a couple of characters from the other books suddenly turn up in unlikely and somewhat surreal fashion, it only confirms Bradbury's knowing camaraderie.

Great characters, memorable set-pieces, Grade-A dialogue and Bradbury's fastest pacing since 'Fahrenheit 451' - the Master marches on. I only hope he produces another one!

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2.0 out of 5 stars Let's All Not Bother, 11 Nov 2005
By Peter Reeve (Thousand Oaks, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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A self-indulgent conceit from a highly successful and respected author who knows he does not have to try very hard any more. All the characters speak with the same voice. The story leads nowhere and says nothing. The many fantasy elements are used not to illuminate truths, which good fantasy can do, but as an excuse for implausibility and incoherence. The one saving grace of the novel is the affectionate description of some aspects of Los Angeles history and geography. The passages about Mount Lowe are fascinating to anyone who lives here. But if I want to learn more about my adopted city I'll look to a guidebook rather than a third-rate fantasy thriller. There is no doubting Bradbury's greatness. How sad that he now feels able to reel off routine dross like this.
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