This was a bit distracting until I told myself to allow the story to exist "whenever." Once that was done, I was able to relax and enjoy this rather timeless narrative. In my opinion Lennon's tone, as well as the story's dialogues, may be more indicative of an earlier decade than the 70’s. Tom Lennon makes me believe he’s telling the story. The narration is carried out consistently well. My only prickly note is that sometimes the feel of time is closer to the 1940’s than the 70’s, which is detectable in both in the dialogue and the narration. The real enjoyment is in details I dare not share lest I spoil your fun. The story definitely kept me guessing as the pendulum swung from hilarity to horror to hope. The plot is enriched with a cast of very suspicious antagonists, all of whom have motive to kill. As Dickens’s enemies gloat over his misfortune, he steadily mounts clues and garners support from his extremely limited resources. Following Detective Damien Dickens through boardwalk knockouts rubbish burials (his own) pawnshop prowls and the ire of his long time enemies made this listen fun adventure and conjured more than a little worry over the doomed detective. This crew is all kerchiefs and pearls and murder. This takes us back to the New Jersey and New York of the 70’s, which was a time of bell bottoms, disco music, pay phones, and platform shoes-but not for the conservative heirs of a tobacco conglomerate.
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