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Dirt: A Crime Novel
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Dirt: A Crime Novelby Sean Doolittle
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful: Down and Dirty, September 24, 2002 Reviewer:Jennifer Jordan (United States) - Dirt Sean Dolittle 2001 ISBN 0-9663473-4-X Uglytown Mystery The opening line of this book is my main selling point when thrusting this book into the hands of hapless strangers on the street. After a stunned glance at the fervor in my eyes and a quick read of said first line, I've got a convert on my hands. "The trouble didn't seem to start so much as it simply landed, like a hunk of blazing debris." Are you converted? Nonetheless, I shall plod on... If I tell you I trust in the savvy, fluid humor of this confection for the mind more than I trust my own mother, would you trust me? What if I told you of my jaded past as a reader of trite, already read plots by apathetic authors not-to-be-named, dismantled and set aside by this sardonic, very human novel exposing the lurid underbelly of the undertaking business? Quince Bishop is yanked into this twisted tale by an ill-spoken "guerrilla" brandishing a gun at a friend's funeral and soon finds himself in an underground world exacting a punishment of frequent beatings as an entrance fee. A beautiful consumer advocate and saucy reporter ex-girlfriend spur him on as he takes on a manic-depressive nemesis and his ganja addled, ex-con sidekick. You and Quince find out more about the funeral industry than you ever wanted to know as he sinks deeper in. How he digs himself out of it is better reveled by reading the book than reading this review. So stop reading this and go buy this book. And I have one word for the author. More.
From Publishers Weekly
After Quince Bishop gets into a fistfight with eco-activists who disrupt his best friend's funeral, his journalist ex-girlfriend covers the story and a beautiful funeral-rights advocate gets involved, upending poor Quince's lackadaisical life. But that's nothing compared to the funeral-biz scams he unearths in Sean Doolittle's uproarious first novel, Dirt.
Copyright 2001 Cahners business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.Book Description
It's morning in L.A., and professional loafer Quince Bishop can't think of anything more depressing than watching yet another loved one, this time his best friend, being lowered into the ground - until a band of eco-activists crash the ceremony to deliver a lecture on the high cost of dying in America. Quince decides to take on these unwelcome guests, but soon finds himself befriending their leader, Maria Casteneda, who takes him into their underground world where the entrance fee is a beating. Not exactly Mayberry, but Quince persists, abetted by his ambitious ex-girlfriend and pushy reporter Melanie Roth. Unable to let buried skeletons lie, Quince collides with two entrepreneurial ex-cons who are hatching a burial plot of their own. Chaos, confusion, and double-dealing are on the program, and only one thing is certain: all paths lead to the cemetery in this hilarious mystery.
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