About Lester Ludlow, Private Eye by Robert R Randall
What are we to make of Lester Ludlow? Trapped somewhere between adolescence and Hollywood fantasy, he is, nevertheless, a competent, if klutzy, private detective. Obsessed with 1940s style private eyes and ‘blonds with big bazookas,’ ludicrous Lester somehow solves crimes with an efficiency that would have made Sam Spade envious. He is abducted and roughed up by the bad guys, betrayed by his beloved blond bombshells, and gets no respect from his mothering mother or his crusty secretary. But Lester, in his prized trench coat and ‘Bogey fedora,’ will not stop until he has his man (or woman). He is, after all (in his own mind, at least) ‘the Philip Marlowe of Mississippi’ (even if he does still live at home with his mama).
Set in the deep South of 1969, Lester Ludlow, Private Eye is hilarious.
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Author Bio:
A former itinerant radio personality, Robert R Randall is a graduate of Lamar University and has an MS in mass communications from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. He is the author of Rita May, Of Love and Sabotage, Octogenarian Blues, The Garvey Girls, Lost in the 50s: In Meridian, Mississippi, The Fourth Step, Back Home Blues, The Morning Man, The Great Pretender: Confessions of a Semi-Incorrigible Southern Catholic Boy, AA in SA: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous in San Antonio and The Healing Power of Connection. He lives in San Antonio.
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