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The Sunday Pigeon Murders

The Bingo Riggs and Handsome Kusak Series, Book 1

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The Sunday Pigeon Murders

De: Craig Rice
Narrado por: Johnny Heller
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In this novel, two New York City street photographers develop a deadly get-rich-quick scheme.

Resourceful Bingo Riggs and his partner, Handsome Kusak, are in the sucker-bait business, snapping candid pics of tourists off Central Park. Their fly-by-night enterprise can be irresistible to souvenir lovers, but with one camera in a pawnshop and their developing room in the bathtub of a two-room dump near Hell’s Kitchen, their venture is wretchedly underexposed - until they stumble upon an insurance fraud scheme between the allegedly dead eccentric Mr. S. S. Pigeon and his business partner and beneficiary.

There’s only one way for Bingo and Handsome to muscle in on that half-million-dollar claim: Kidnap Pigeon and blackmail his co-conspirator. Unfortunately, their foolproof plan comes with mobsters, a dodgy chorus girl, multiple murders, a refrigerated corpse, and the strange Mr. Pigeon himself, who, it seems, likes being a hostage.

In fact, he has no intention of escaping. It’s the surest way to protect his own secret - which could be Bingo and Handsome’s biggest threat.

©1942 Craig Rice (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Detective Aficionado Detectives Tradicionales Duro Ficción Histórico Literatura y Ficción Misterio Detective Murder Mystery Funny Mystery
Gripping Mystery • Well-constructed Plot • Perfect Narration • Entertaining Story • Whimsical Delivery • Genuine Accents
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I liked the time period! The descriptions of New York ‘back in the day’; the cost of groceries and clothing; the innocence; the thought of trustworthy deals on only the word of another; the simplicity of life.

Clever and intriguing

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Really enjoyed this book! Like listening to a classic noir movie on TCM. Lovable main characters and interesting plot with plenty of humor.
Highly recommend!

Good fun!

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it had good pacing.
it wasn't as fast or as intense as I usually like but it did have a way of keeping me engaged enough I didn't want to stop.

not my usual read

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I don't care what the story is. If Johnny Heller is narrating it, I'm in! This story was okay. It wasn't too long so I didn't invest too much time on it. But worth listen for sure.

I love Johnny Heller

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Very entertaining story! Brilliantly written and even more btilliantly narrated! Easy listening, a real treat!

wonderfully entertaining

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Love the accents and how the reader made all the voices sound genuine.
The ending!!! I love it!

Great read

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Rice's buddy mystery is a fantastic who-done-it and Johnny Heller's performance is absolutely perfect.

another great story

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Johnny Heller has an airy and whimsical delivery amenable to the telling of this tale.
As I listened, I didn’t know when it was written until the end and was marvelling at how unsophisticated yet realistically 1940’s it was.
The plot involves scraping by with minimal money or prospects until an insurance fraud caper is concluded in one week’s time. It’s complicated by threats from competitors while trying to make an honest living, sort truth from lie and solve some murders. It’s a worthy whodunnit.
(The most overused trope of the time, an unemotional and fearless PI who gets hit on the head every time he walks in a room and sees a body is totally avoided. Dead bodies are found and maybe there’s a drunken beauty past her prime or a waved handgun or a bent nosed mobster, but some stereotypes are avoided.)

The theme is friendship and integrity and faith. I found this aspect refreshing in its purity compared to any recent literature. A side-plot: 2 guys are dedicated friends who both love a young girl (portrayed as a paragon of virtue and beauty in a way also not available in contemporary lit.). Essentially, both guys are humble and willing to give the girl to the other one as he’s the better man.

Craig Rice doesn’t turn a phrase like PG Wodehouse or portray a setting like Steinbeck but he will immerse you in the mood of the time and steadily tell a good tale with the values of faith, loyalty and friendship held high to the end.

Genuine buddy drama/murder mystery c1942

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I really enjoyed this book. A quality murder mystery set in a simpler time. it was a fun read.

great fun 👍

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Gary Grant. Rosalind Russell. Ralph Bellamy. Whip-smart cracks and comebacks (some adlibbed while the cameras were rolling). Craig Rice (alias Georgianna Ann Randolph Craig) always gets much the same carefree screwball swagger into her dialogue – while giving us a gripping, well-constructed mystery into the bargain. No wonder one critic called her, “the Dorothy Parker of detective fiction”.

And Johnny Heller is the perfect conduit for this marvelous brand of lighthearted, murderous mayhem – though you might want to slow him down to .09x just so you catch everything.

Have you ever seen His Girl Friday?

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