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by: Earl W. Emerson
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780688083359
ISBN: 0688083358
Label: William Morrow & Co
Manufacturer: William Morrow & Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 225
Publication Date: 1988-10
Publisher: William Morrow & Co
Sales Rank: 1919148
Studio: William Morrow & Co
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Product Description:
When seventeen-year-old Todd Steeb has been missing for eight days, his wealthy parents hire Thomas Black to investigate. Faith Steeb is worried by her son's obsession with suicide, though her husband dismisses it as youthful 'deviance.' Aided by his lawyer friend Kathy Birchfield, Black finds forgotten crime, buried treasure, possible murder, and enough 'deviant' behavior to blow Seattle off the map.
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Rating:  - A page turner!
Another good addition to the Thomas Black series. A light, entertaining book - and series - which keeps you laughing, thinking and turning the pages to the final chapter. A fun read.
Rating: - Deviant Behavior
"Deviant Behavior" is the fifth Thomas Black novel by Earl Emerson. Seventeen-year-old Todd Steeb has run away from home, and his parents hire Black to investigate. Thomas and Todd's brother, Buzz, travel to Seattle's Chinatown and the old Milwaukee hotel in search of Todd, whom Buzz thinks is investigating the suicide of their uncle Jan. The plot is somewhat convoluted. It involves murder, suicide, missing money, and the author of a cult classic novel. All this said, "Deviant Behavior" was entertaining ... Read More
Rating: - Black's Decent "Behavior"
"Deviant Behavior" was the first novel in the Thomas Black P.I. series that I have read. I am a huge P.I. fiction fan, and on the basis of this novel I would place Earl W. Emmerson's hero only a notch or so below masters like Raymond Chandler, Lawrence Block and Loren Estleman. Black is not as quick with a metaphor as the best P.I.s, nor is he as world weary or cynical. And Emmerson leaves a lot of the details of his story a little fuzzy around the edges. But the central mystery in "Deviant Behavior" ... Read More
Rating:  - Excellent! Would like to compare it to "The Lady In The Lake
I enjoyed Emerson's "Deviant Behavior" greatly! Not only because of the "hero" Thomas Black, but because it is located here in Seattle, WA and is incredibly accurate as to locations, etc. Question for anyone: Read Raymond Chandler's "The Lady In The Lake" last week. Our instructor indicated today that Emerson perhaps stole something from Chandler. I cannot find what this might be. Can anyone help me with this? Many thanks. (Loved both books, by the way.)
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