James Lileks
Trattoria Restaurant, 3 AM. One waiter, one customer. The overnight fry cook rambles up to the pie case to take his nightly hit of dessert-topping propellant. Itâ€™s not a complete surprise when he falls to the floor; the stuff gives him the spins. Thatâ€™s the point. Itâ€™s a bad moment for the boss to arrive, though. Itâ€™s worse when the cook turns out to be dead - from a bullet no one heard. ,For the waiter, itâ€™s the start of the the worst few months of his life, and before itâ€™s done heâ€™ll be neck-deep in drug deals, romances with a faithless minx and an unintelligible Russian teacher - and a plot by campus radicals to blow something big. Itâ€™s 1980, after all. No shortage of things to deplore. Theyâ€™re not too concerned with disco, though; that seems to be on the way out. ,â€œGraveyard Specialâ€ is another humorous mystery by the author of â€œFalling Up the Stairs,â€ and the first in a series of interconnected mysteries that span six decades.
Humor,Mystery,Fiction
Graveyard Special (Mill City 1)