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ISBN:
0809511568 (tp)
ISBN: 0809511576 (hc)
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ROB
KANTNER
TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO:
The Collected Ben Perkins
"Ben
Perkins is back! It feels so good to say that. Twenty-three years
ago, when Rob Kantner introduced his Detroit PI in the short story
"C Is for Cookie," he probably had no idea he was heralding
in a new era of mystery fiction. Before Rob, the private eye genre
was glutted with down-in-their-luck losers who wore trench coats
and talked like Bogart. Stereotypes ruled the paperback racks,
and a revamp was sorely needed. Rob's genius was to give his hero
something more than clichéd one-liners and a drinking problem.
Namely, a life."
J. A. Konrath, from his introduction
This
collection includes 18 stories featuring Ben Perkins, from the
earliest part of his career to the latest chapter. The final story,
"Sex and Violins" has never before been published.
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