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The Paperback Sleuth--Death in Fine Condition by Andrew Cartmel
5.0
Cordelia is not the sort of narrator you necessarily like, or even root for. She’s devious and scheming and absolutely obsessed with herself. She’s fascinating. I didn’t care if good things happened to her, I’d even have been happy to see her in prison just so I could watch her interact with that environment, but I didn’t want to stop listening to her. There could be less masturbating in her landlord’s bathtub, but the constant coitus interruptus is pretty funny.
Paperbacks are the name of the game. Everyone is looking for fine condition crime paperbacks from the 60s. Cordelia wants them enough to set up scams to get them, and later even to housebreak and steal them. She thinks nothing of selling her stolen books and introducing her client and her burglary victim. She’s monstrous and fantastic. She’s in big trouble.
The only things Cordelia cares about other than her paperbacks are weed and a Woman she has seen at book sales. Weed is the plot device that started this book really going, and I’m hoping The Woman will start the next one. This is definitely going to be a series. Might even be a series already, but I haven’t looked that far into it yet and In Fine Condition stands on its own. Anyway series fans seem to hate this one and I liked it so I think readers are better off starting here.
Paperbacks are the name of the game. Everyone is looking for fine condition crime paperbacks from the 60s. Cordelia wants them enough to set up scams to get them, and later even to housebreak and steal them. She thinks nothing of selling her stolen books and introducing her client and her burglary victim. She’s monstrous and fantastic. She’s in big trouble.
The only things Cordelia cares about other than her paperbacks are weed and a Woman she has seen at book sales. Weed is the plot device that started this book really going, and I’m hoping The Woman will start the next one. This is definitely going to be a series. Might even be a series already, but I haven’t looked that far into it yet and In Fine Condition stands on its own. Anyway series fans seem to hate this one and I liked it so I think readers are better off starting here.