MYSTERY

Dog in the Manger: An Eli Paxton Mystery

by Mike Resnick
. November 2012. 220p. 978-1-61614-710-5. 13.95.
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A cash-strapped PI from Cincinnati can’t afford to be picky, so, with some misgivings, Eli Paxton agrees to find a missing show dog. The dog was supposed to be air-shipped to Arizona but never arrived. Within hours, Eli learns the dog handler is dead, and then folks at the small air cargo lines start disappearing. Feeling a teensy bit paranoid but much more determined, Eli forges on—heading to Phoenix to meet the dog’s owner, and from there into Mexico. Eli is tougher than he looks, which is good because he’s stumbled into something much bigger than dog breeding, and folks are interested in silencing him, too.
VERDICT Told in an amiable first-person narrative dripping with sarcasm, Resnick’s engrossing puzzler (originally published in 1995) captures the essence of the antiheroic PI. Resnick, a noted science fiction author (five Hugo awards) writes with a speculative tone that translates well to the detective genre. May there be more!
Reviewed by Sue White , Oct 01, 2012
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