Here's the first in what will hopefully be a regular series of YouTube videos where I sit in a chair and ramble about books I've read. This time, I'm talking about Joseph Hansen's FADEOUT, the first of his Dave Brandstetter mysteries.
After working as a personal butler to a deranged, elderly former actress, I inherit her fortune upon her untimely death and use it to procure a communist child heir/apprentice from a Christian adoption agency called Kommie Kids.
My friend, the storied film critic Jordan Hoffman, made me a proposition. Since he recently moved to the New Jersey suburbs, he subscribed to the local newspaper and had been reading the daily Ziggy comic strip. He knew I live a very busy lifestyle and offered a service: He would