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Peter Amsterdam never intended to become a PI. He blames his accountant for the whole sorry mess. It was he who said that no PI makes money, it was he who said that Pete should plough some of his profits from selling something trivial that only made life more annoying into a business that even the IRS didn¿t bother with.
And lazing naked in the hot tub in the garden of his house in Key West it had, briefly, seemed a pretty good plan to PI Pete Amsterdam. But then the blonde walked in, a situation ripped from the pages of the most clichéd of detective novels, and before you could say ¿pass me that towel¿ he was on a case that would overturn his whole life. After nearly ending it.
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Raymond Chandler meets Woody Allen meets the Coen brothers
The first thing I'd like to say about The Naked Detective is that I had a great time writing it. After twenty years of avoiding first-person, and seven previous Key West novels in which I'd steered clear of a sleuth, I found myself tickled silly to be writing a first-person sleuth book. Not that Pete is much of a detective. Like myself, he's basically chicken. When it comes to solving murders, he'd rather be playing tennis or sipping wine. And yet the story sucks him in. In a manner that some folks might call postmodern, the demands and conventions of the mystery tale get all tangled up with life itself, until Pete has no choice but to muddle through to the only kind of heroism that matters a damn to me--the heroism of an ordinary person reaching deeper than he thought he could. Oh, and there's also a sweet love story with a gorgeous yoga teacher. And, by the way, I think parts of it are pretty funny.
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¿I never meant to be a private investigator. It was my accountant¿s idea of a tax dodge ...¿
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- PublisherOrion
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0752844180
- ISBN 13 9780752844183
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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