This book is excellent. The first half is as fast-paced as a
Race
Williams story; the second-half like a pre-Freud puzzler.
Action and
reaction, not analytical paralysis. The 1980 introduction is
[was]
invaluable to a [this] 1999 reader.
Who killed Sheila? Beats me, but Dick, Mamie, Gentner, or
Sheila herself
are all believable as the actor. The bare fact that Dick
would *insist*
that he did it -- and get laughed out of the building,
literally -- is
passing alien to the modern reader. Highly entertaining and
recommended.
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