It's book 9 of a series. I haven't read any of the previous books and had some trouble getting into the mojo of the whole story.
In the end it felt having the TV on while doing something else that takes up most of my attention: I was thinking about sentence structure, paragraph organisation and why the heck food was more important in some scenes, rather than the conversation going on. ( )

It's book 9 of a series. I haven't read any of the previous books and had some trouble getting into the mojo of the whole story.
In the end it felt having the TV on while doing something else that takes up most of my attention: I was thinking about sentence structure, paragraph organisation and why the heck food was more important in some scenes, rather than the conversation going on. ( )

like Tubby Dubonnet. However, this was one of my less favourite books in the series. It was not quite as much fun as the others. ( )

I was thrilled to see a new entry in this series, because Tubby and the cursing cast of characters in these books--his secretary Cherrylynn, his friend Raisin, the PI Flowers, and others are like old acquaintances, and I need to see how they are continuing to make out. This book takes up where the last one, the Night Watchman, left off. I would have to say the series is getting darker all the time as Tubby battles it out with a dwindling band of Cuban revolutionaries, takes a possible axe murderer as a client, and finds himself (and his friends and colleagues) under threat from all directions. In just 159 pages, Dunbar doesn't have time to deal with a lot of nuance, although he does have time for a tour of a few new New Orleans eating places. Perhaps he was racing to the finish so he could start writing the next volume. This one, while it has a satisfying conclusion, inevitably leaves a few ends still unraveled. ( )