{"id":10222,"date":"2014-04-19T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2020-11-27T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T16:42:52","slug":"book-review-fit-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/book-review-fit-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Fit to Kill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 1ate 1950s and Shayne&#8217;s reporter friend Tim Rourke is on vacation in a Latin American country with a corrupt government when he meets a beautiful blonde claiming to have hot information.<\/p>\n<p>Shayne is at the airport to meet Rourke, who acts out of character. Then Rourke is kidnapped while the girl disappears and Shayne is left with a lot of questions and a typewriter.<\/p>\n<p>The story is okay, it&#8217;s not as good as the other two Shayne mysteries I&#8217;ve read, but Halliday provides your expected dose of mayhem, danger, and beautiful blondes.<\/p>\n<p>This one suffered for having Shayne out of the picture for the first 30 percent of the book. Rourke isn&#8217;t a fun point of view character. Plus in the middle of the book, Rourke gets kind of drunk and those scenes read like \u00a0\u00a0poor imitation of Craig Rice&#8217;s Mr. Malone. The solution is all a bit unsurprising and it wasn&#8217;t well set up.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Mike Shayne is still good and it&#8217;s not a bad read, but Halliday had produced far better books than this one.<\/p>\n<p>Rating: 3.0 out of 5.0<\/p>\n<p><em>The copy I read plus another Michael Shayne mystery are available on request with the first donation received of $50 or more for listeners in the US or Canada.\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0See details\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatdetectives.net\/detectives\/summer-2011-listener-support-campaign\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, you can have new posts about Detective stories and the golden age of radio and television delivered\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B004U8SET2\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=adamsblog03-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B004U8SET2\">automatically to your Kindle<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This post contains affiliate links, which means that items purchased from these links may result in a commission being paid to the author of this post at no extra cost to the purchaser.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the 1ate 1950s and Shayne&#8217;s reporter friend Tim Rourke is on vacation in a Latin American country with a corrupt government when he meets a beautiful blonde claiming to have hot information. 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