Craig Pospisil

A noir pastiche that plays on math terminology (it has a subtitle "A Math Noir") does not sound like something that should work. And somehow, it turns out to work in a somewhat hilarious way.

San Francisco, the 1940s

A damsel in distress walks into the office of detective Fibonacci and asks for his help finding a missing nautilus (aka a big shell). But that is not her only problem - she also owes a lot of money to a casino owner. Of course she is not telling the truth (where is the fun in that) and of course things are a lot more complicated.

If you remove the math references - some of them work, some of them are there just to be there, this sounds a lot like the weaker episodes of the detective radio shows from the 1940s. Which is what it was trying to sound like. It takes awhile to get into it -- it almost sounds like a farce at the start but then it evens out. It is cocky and absolutely unrealistic and it works.… (altro)