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Kill Me with Kindness

By: R.R. (Russell Robert) Winterbotham writing as J. Harvey Bond
Narrated by: Lorraine Walters
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Summary

A crime reporter investigates the case of the deadly do-gooder!

While Mike Lanson, reporter for the Gazette, was checking up on Clarence Proost, director of the Anti-Vice League, Proost was slain. There was a strip-tease dancer named Luzy who thought that "maybe" she murdered him. The police thought so too, but Mike didn't so he helped her hide out, hoping for the bigger story to break.

All the gangsters in town didn't care who killed whom, all they wanted were the blackmail files Luzy had in hiding with her. With everyone on the merry-go-round of murder, Mike knew the odds were high against the real kingpin of crime showing his head - but he was willing to risk his own as well as Luzy's to headline that story!

In this classic noir thriller you will meet:

  • Mike Lanson, crime reporter for the Gazette - a journalistic bulldog who never lets go once he sinks his teeth into a story
  • Lucrezia, also known as Mabel (Luzy) McGuire - a strip-tease artist whose career could soon be interrupted by death
  • Clarence Proost, a professional do-gooder - who finds do-gooding often leads to death
  • Mr. and Mrs. Manton Arkwright, a wealthy, middle-aged couple - active in the Proost's Citizens Anti-Vice League
  • Brick Lorchetto, operator of the swank Hilltop gambling casino, whose extra-curricular activities could make him a target of blackmail, or murder - or even a killer
  • Jim Bomo, Lorchetto's henchman and bodyguard - he'll do anything for his boss, even commit murder or multiple murders
  • Ramcaster, county prosecutor - who knows everything going on in town but for some reason is reluctant to act
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This is a very good short Noir Thriller. Gambling and deception abound in this hard to put down story. Well written and good characters. Lorraine Walters's narration is very good and really keeps the story going.
I was kindly given a copy of this book by the publisher and leave this honest review.

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"Sometimes it's better to know your enemies."

Kill Me with Kindness is an old style, slightly amusing noir mystery thriller in which a reporter is constantly frantically trying to save the girl possibly suspected of murder, and with lines such as "Nice work waiting with this dame", " Skinny men are sad and cynical" and "What's itching under your arm pits?"
It could have been great fun.

Unfortunately, when the very important part of an audio was decided - the selection of the narrator - without any consideration of the story contents ( of which the majority is conversation conducted between male protagonists as well as being written in first person by the reporter himself ) a woman was selected. Moreover, a woman unable to give a plausible male voice, or even to vary the voices at all. So a completely bizarre 'performance ' which made some of the story statements nonsensical. The whole book became annoyingly ridiculous, completely ruined by the very bad choice of Lorraine Walters as narrator (who might well have been fairly successful in a totally different production). As such, it took me three attempts to complete it.

Read the book instead if you can to avoid the distraction.
My thanks, however, to the rights holder who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy

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