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Sto caricando le informazioni... Ask for Me Tomorrow (1976)di Margaret Millar
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Introducing Tom Aragon, a fast-talking Mexican-American attorney turned private investigator, who is sent by his boss to track down a wealthy client's philandering ex-husband in Mexico. His boss' good idea of sending a Mexican to Mexico soon proves less than a sure thing as Aragon encounters crooked expats, land scams, and dead-end after dead-end in this quixotic and very entertaining homage to Chandler and Hammett. Gilda Decker needs a new bag, what with her second husband being suddenly crippled and her ex-husband hiding himself and his money somewhere in the hinterlands of Mexico. Gilda's recently retained lawyer, Tom Aragon, Mexican himself, is the best man for the job. But the deeper Aragon digs into her ex-husband's past the more dangerous his job becomes. One of Millar's few reoccurring characters and her only foray into the tradition of Chandler and Hammett, Tom Aragon, ranks among her best creations. A sarcastic but talented young lawyer with a few rough edges, Aragon finds himself navigating one entitled nest of vipers after another, not to mention racial prejudice. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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A simple enough task, if one that's likely to be somewhat bereft of creature comforts for the duration of the young man's trip. Or so Tom thinks. But from the journey's start--a small village with no electricity or indoor plumbing--creature comforts will be the least of Tom Aragon's worries. As he tracks the movements of B.J.Lockwood from village to city to the prison where his trail seems to end, strange events follow him. First one, then another of the people who may have knowledge of Lockwood's whereabouts end up dead.
Will Tom Aragon be next?
Margaret Millar's Ask For Me Tomorrow is a short, taut suspense novel. It is elegantly constructed with a suprise ending that shocks. The dialog is snappy--clever, fast and sophisticated in a manner harking back to novels and movies of the forties. The characters are complex and flawed, and the settings are evocatively described--one can smell the beer and cheap whiskey, the urine and vomit, in the dives to which Tom Aragon's search takes him.
There's a lot of good crime fiction being produced today. But reading a gem such as Ask For Me Tomorrow truly drives home the point that writers should read, read, and read some more in the genre in which they choose to work. I can think of quite a few contemporary writers who would be well-served by soaking up some smart, well-written and well-plotted vintage crime fiction. ( )