Saratoga Strongbox

Victor Plotz, the shameless sidekick of Charlie Bradshaw, longtime star of Stephen Dobyns's mystery series, manages to offend everyone but the reader in this pitch-perfect and sometimes laugh-out-loud-funny novel.Victor agrees to collect a suspicious suitcase in Montreal for miserly old man Weber. Unfortunately, when he decides to farm out the job to bumbling black belt Eddie Gillespie, he's soon embroiled in a fiasco involving two kneecapping thugs and an Amazon stripper who throws over Weber's hapless, overweight son for a jockey. Even more anxiety-provoking are Victor's fears that his girlfriend, Rosemary has been stepping out with someone else.Victor and Charlie are on the trail of every deadly sin from dirty money to outright murder, once again providing what the Boston Globe called "jaunty and colorful, good tongue-in-cheek fun".Dobyns, Stephen is the author of 'Saratoga Strongbox' with ISBN 9781568958484 and ISBN 156895848X.