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CRACKER: ONE DAY A LEMMING WILL FLY

Cracker: One Day A Lemming Will Fly ($22.95; Jan. 15; 272 pp.; 0-312-18072-1): In this third novelization for TV's raffish forensic psychologist Dr. Edward Fitzgerald (Cracker: To Say I Love You, not reviewed), Fitz has to decide between his wife Judith and Sgt. Jane Penhaligon as he searches for the killer who left a young boy, Timothy Lang, hanging from a tree.

Pub Date: Jan. 15, 1998

ISBN: 0-312-18072-1

Page Count: 272

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Dec. 1, 1997

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THE BIG SLEEP

A good one in the tough school, in which private detective Marlowe is hired to investigate a blackmailing and finds himself bucking a well-run gang, several murders, and the D A's office. Hard-boiled, fast paced, plenty of action, some sensationalism. Not for conservatives.

Pub Date: Feb. 5, 1938

ISBN: 0394758285

Page Count: 244

Publisher: Knopf

Review Posted Online: March 23, 2012

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1938

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WAY DOWN ON THE HIGH LONELY

Looks like Neal Carey, the peripatetic agent of that free- lance justice troop Friends of the Family, will never get back to New York to write his dissertation on Tobias Smollett. This time he's sprung from three years in a Chinese monastery (The Trail to Buddha's Mirror, 1992) only to be sent undercover as a ranch-hand in the Nevada plains to scout out the Sons of Seth, a white- supremacist flock that's his best hope for locating two-year-old Cody McCall, snatched from his Hollywood mother during a paternal weekend. Neal settles in deep, of course, and his ritual ordeals- -having to sell out the rancher who took him in, breaking off his romance with tough schoolmarm Karen Hawley, going up against rotten-apple Cal Strekker, getting ordered to kill his Friendly mentor Joe Graham—are as predictable as the trademark dose of mysticism as the bodies pile up, and as the certainty that when the dust settles, Neal won't be back at school. Winslow's Aryan crazies don't have the threatening solidity of Stephen Greenleaf's (Southern Cross, p. 1102 ), but Neal's latest adventure is full of entertaining derring-do.

Pub Date: Nov. 16, 1993

ISBN: 0-312-09934-7

Page Count: 288

Publisher: St. Martin's

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 15, 1993

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