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In this inventive mystery set in Hollywood's golden era, Ron Goulart revives America's favorite cigar-wielding comic--Groucho Marx. Needing a project to occupy him between movie stints, Groucho agrees to act in a radio serial. But when a beautiful starlet is found dead before production even begins, Groucho is determined to find out who killed her.
Groucho Marx Master Detective A Mystery featuring Groucho Marx Mysteries Featuring Groucho Marx Book 1 edition by Ron Goulart Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
Here's the ultimate wisecracking detective, and, yes, it's Groucho Marx, in person. If you're a fan of the Marx Brothers classics of the 1930s—Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Horsefeathers, Animal Crackers, and the others—you'll love this fast-paced romp through the dark side of Hollywood. In Groucho Marx Master Detective, prolific novelist and popular culture historian Ron Goulart shows off his ability to mimic the irrepressible jokester. The novel is the first of six in a series that Goulart wrote between 1998 and 2005 featuring Groucho in a role that would cause Philip Marlowe to blush.Goulart writes dialogue that sounds uncannily like Groucho's glib patter. "Being dead will take your appetite right away," Groucho remarks. "Anybody who really wants to lose weight should seriously consider dropping dead. And perhaps that was your husband's motive, Mrs. Uppercase, because he does look a bit on the pudgy side. Or maybe it's just the suit. But then who'd want to buy a pudgy suit?"
Groucho Marx Master Detective is set in 1937 after the Marx Brothers' career in films had peaked. Groucho is in his late forties. The Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes is young Frank Denby, a Hollywood screenwriter who is working with him on a new radio show named like the title of the novel. When a starlet dies at her home, allegedly a suicide, Groucho resolves to learn what really happened. The young woman had been one of Groucho's many extracurricular affairs, and he's certain she would not have killed herself. So is everyone else except the cops and the executives at the studio where she was angling for a major role in an upcoming movie. Groucho and Frank set out on a madcap investigation that causes them to be kidnapped, shot at, and clubbed on the head more than once. (Have you ever wondered how these fictional characters can repeatedly get knocked on the head without suffering a concussion?)
The novel's primary purpose is to showcase Groucho's dialogue—well, mainly monologues, if the truth be told—but the plot might have worked as well in a more serious mystery novel. The starlet's death and its coverup turn out to have been involved in a clusterf*** of lascivious studio executives, bent cops, and gentlemanly mobsters that yields up surprises to the end. The story is fun, but it's Groucho who, as always, steals the show. The book is at times very, very funny.
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Groucho Marx Master Detective A Mystery featuring Groucho Marx Mysteries Featuring Groucho Marx Book 1 edition by Ron Goulart Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Everyone knows Groucho was the master of the somewhat leering, slightly suggestive non sequitur. As a comic he was a master of stage and screen with his equally masterful brothers. And on his own he mastered radio and television with his You Bet Your Life quiz show. But could you ever imagine him as a master detective?
Well, that's the premise of this book. Set in the thirties, the story opens with Groucho getting ready to go solo and star in a new radio show to be called GROUCHO MARX, MASTER DETECTIVE. The show is being written by Frank Denby, a former police reporter turned wannabe scriptwriter. Suddenly, a budding movie starlet commits suicide. Groucho, who admits to sleeping with the woman, is convinced she would never kill herself and he asks Denby to help him investigate the matter.
Denby's investigation uncovers the possibility of murder, blackmail, police corruption, organized crime and a sinister Hollywood cover-up. And to top it off, he and Groucho seem to have been added to the hit list.
Although the author has a parade of thirties era celebrities (or their names) dropping in on the action, his writing does not really have a convincing feel for the era. And while Groucho's constant quips are often quite funny, he comes across more as a caricature than a real character. The book was alright, but in the end take a bit of Groucho's advice ... don't shoot elephants in your pajamas and if you want to read about celebrity sleuths stick to Kaminsky and Baxt. I was also bothered by the dust jacket illustration which seems to be closely based on the classic and highly superior Hirshfield drawing of Groucho.
Having read the third book in the series (the cover called to me in the library, what could I do?) I am going back at starting at the very beginning. "Groucho Marx, Master Detective" is not a compelling mystery in which you try to figure out the clues one step ahead of the sleuth, but it is fun to have Groucho alive and kicking. Aided and abetted by the narrator, a former police reporter and current writer for Groucho's fledgling radio show named, surprise, "Groucho Marx, Master Detective," Groucho is investigating the "suicide" of a young starlet with whom he was once involved. Of course, it was really murder and Groucho feels compelled to find out whodunit.
Ron Goulart's novel is a pleasant diversion. If you are a hardcore mystery fan there is really not much here, so it may well be this book is going to tickle the fancy of devoted Marxists such as myself. With this Groucho Marx you get both the blazing and constant sarcastic abuse (one of the running gags is people thinking they recognize Groucho without his mustache) and the "real" Julius Marx (on those rare occasions when he forces himself to drop all of the pretenses). The parade of Hollywood stars in the background seems a bit forced at this point, but it becomes more refined down the road. The main thing is that we get another chance to hear Groucho speak. Ever since I heard about "A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine," a play in which the second act is the Marx Brothers doing Chekov (sort of), I have been open to the idea of reviving Groucho and his siblings in new and creative ways. In that regard, Ron Goulart's books are a pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
I love this series. It takes the reader back to an earlier era and the guide is the brilliant Groucho! This story is clever, witty and great for a laugh!
Groucho Marx as a detective-what could be funnier?
A fun light read. The author captures the wit and patter of Groucho. Gives an insight into nature of Hollywood in the 1930's. I like stories like these for reading in bed.
Here's the ultimate wisecracking detective, and, yes, it's Groucho Marx, in person. If you're a fan of the Marx Brothers classics of the 1930s—Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera, Horsefeathers, Animal Crackers, and the others—you'll love this fast-paced romp through the dark side of Hollywood. In Groucho Marx Master Detective, prolific novelist and popular culture historian Ron Goulart shows off his ability to mimic the irrepressible jokester. The novel is the first of six in a series that Goulart wrote between 1998 and 2005 featuring Groucho in a role that would cause Philip Marlowe to blush.
Goulart writes dialogue that sounds uncannily like Groucho's glib patter. "Being dead will take your appetite right away," Groucho remarks. "Anybody who really wants to lose weight should seriously consider dropping dead. And perhaps that was your husband's motive, Mrs. Uppercase, because he does look a bit on the pudgy side. Or maybe it's just the suit. But then who'd want to buy a pudgy suit?"
Groucho Marx Master Detective is set in 1937 after the Marx Brothers' career in films had peaked. Groucho is in his late forties. The Dr. Watson to his Sherlock Holmes is young Frank Denby, a Hollywood screenwriter who is working with him on a new radio show named like the title of the novel. When a starlet dies at her home, allegedly a suicide, Groucho resolves to learn what really happened. The young woman had been one of Groucho's many extracurricular affairs, and he's certain she would not have killed herself. So is everyone else except the cops and the executives at the studio where she was angling for a major role in an upcoming movie. Groucho and Frank set out on a madcap investigation that causes them to be kidnapped, shot at, and clubbed on the head more than once. (Have you ever wondered how these fictional characters can repeatedly get knocked on the head without suffering a concussion?)
The novel's primary purpose is to showcase Groucho's dialogue—well, mainly monologues, if the truth be told—but the plot might have worked as well in a more serious mystery novel. The starlet's death and its coverup turn out to have been involved in a clusterf*** of lascivious studio executives, bent cops, and gentlemanly mobsters that yields up surprises to the end. The story is fun, but it's Groucho who, as always, steals the show. The book is at times very, very funny.
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