A review by rbreade
Sweet Silver Blues by Glen Cook

Did not finish book.

I gave this a hundred pages. The idea is good: a mash-up of noir detective and high fantasy, with Cook's private investigator, Garrett, taking a job that involves a contested will and a fortune in silver. Humans, gnomes, elves, and so forth. Cook's world-building isn't bad, nor is his dialogue, but he leans to far in to the sexist tropes of old-school detective fiction: the female characters are either shrews or temptresses or both, existing only to check a few plot boxes and allowed no agency of their own. In this, the novel shows its age, having been published in 1987. Finally, I said, "No thanks," and put the book aside.