The Bamboo Blonde
...he was never afraid, not even when he should be. That was why he got involved in...
On their second honeymoon, a woman’s husband is arrested for murderGriselda Satterlee is beginning to regret her second marriage to Con. Their honeymoon was supposed to be joyous, romantic, and full of glamor—all of the things their first marriage wasn’t—but instead they are spending it on Long Beach, a Navy town whose fleets have all shipped out to sea. The tedium of Long Beach cannot compare to the insult Con gives Griselda one night, when he picks up a stunning blonde at a bar, leaving his wife in the dust.When he returns to their hotel, Con explains to Griselda that the woman was planning to shoot herself, so he took her out of the bar to confiscate her gun. Griselda is just beginning to believe him when the blonde turns up dead, and Con is arrested for her murder. Griselda will have to work quickly to salvage their honeymoon,...
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Con and Griselda are on their second honeymoon--well, they've married each other twice--but she's still suspicious of his drinking, his interest in other women (especially when her long-time rival Dare turns up in Long Beach, where they're staying against her will), and most of all his relationship with U.S. Intelligence in the fraught... Solid quirky pulp novel that has a bit of hollywood noir, espionage, and really strong female characters, who shouldn't be mistaken for typical femme fatales. On FB i called this book - proto Highsmith... I stand by that, not so literary as Highsmith perhaps, but just as grey in its portrayal of heroes and villains. ...he was never afraid, not even when he should be. That was why he got involved in things; not scrapes that you could laugh at later, but serious trouble where death whispered, and which you tried never to remember after. (p. 17)If I hadn't been determined that Dorothy B. Hughes's The Bamboo Blonde was going to be my last read of 2013...
