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Jason Keltner Mystery #2
Coffin's Got the Dead Guy on the Inside
What Jason Keltner wanted to do was finish Untitled #23, his favorite among thirty incomplete fragments of music he'd created in the last several months. Then Norton Platt made him an offer he could refuse - if he weren't worried about things like rent. Because he was, Jason agreed to babysit Paul Reno. The deal, after all, included expenses. And mileage. But no information about whom he was really being employed by. His first order of Take Paul to a party for Huey Benton and see what happens.
What happens is that Huey Benton drops dead. What happens next is that Jason and his roommates at the Manor, Robert and Martin, find themselves in the middle of a search for the "dongle." All they know about it is that it has something to do with computers and that far too many people are willing to kill to get their hands on it . . . and that Paul, somehow, is in the middle of it all.
Jason and his gang, who wouldn't even think of shooting straight, race through California subcultures looking for answers that will let them live to play another day, and when they find them they face a final what to do with what they've learned when they no longer know whom to trust.
What happens is that Huey Benton drops dead. What happens next is that Jason and his roommates at the Manor, Robert and Martin, find themselves in the middle of a search for the "dongle." All they know about it is that it has something to do with computers and that far too many people are willing to kill to get their hands on it . . . and that Paul, somehow, is in the middle of it all.
Jason and his gang, who wouldn't even think of shooting straight, race through California subcultures looking for answers that will let them live to play another day, and when they find them they face a final what to do with what they've learned when they no longer know whom to trust.
287 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 1998
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December 21, 2007
Re-read this last week. As with _Show Control_, I enjoyed it just as much the second time. I also put my finger on just what it is I like so much about this series. It's the sense that, were I faced with a similar situation, I could solve it the way Jason does. His only weapons are wit, guile and good, crazy friends. I love that.
June 2, 2011
Excellent--smart and funny. How many books can you say that about?
June 3, 2014
A fun, rollicking read!
February 7, 2017
Unfortunately I can't remember this, having read it in 2001. At the time, I had noted that it was a Jason Keltner mystery. He's a musician/composer in California. Good. It was sort of a funny buddy story. Probably a 3.5 rating.
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