Round the clock at volari's ebook read online Jim Chase is a middle aged lawyer whose life has been thrown off track He lost his high profile career in the DA s office in the wake of a citywide crackdown on corruption His marriage ended because of an affair with a cocktail waitress He knows his reputation will never recover but nonetheless he still thinks of himself as a decent man who just got carried away during heady times Occasionally he reminisces at Volari s Restaurant which had been the epicenter of his life back when people still respected him and the money was still flowing When his old politico boss gets robbed of a stash of 200000 out of Volari s safe he accepts a commission to track it down in exchange for a ten percent finder s fee This seems to be substandard fare for Gold Medal Books back in 1961 The plot is serviceable but it lacks mystery and tension The omniscient narrator spells out in the opening chapters who took the money and how The rest of the book follows Jim as he tries to piece together the puzzle before the cops do The characters are rather unmemorable The author succeeds in giving them an interesting if slightly murky backstory I wanted to read about their heyday before the fall I wanted to learn how Tom Patton rose from Prohibition bootlegger to the boss of City Hall I wanted to know how Judge Weybrecht brought down the graft empire These stories seemed dynamic and exciting than this by the numbers heist It has long been rud that Robert Silverberg ghost wrote this novel for W R Burnett This has been asserted in print by at least three bibliographers Charles Elkins Martin H Greenberg and Thomas D Clareson it has been refuted by others George and Julie Anderson Silverberg himself weighs in on the debate on his quasi official website I remember being involved with another Burnett book called Round the Clock at Volari s which I may have edited in the same way as The Winning of Mickey Free or perhaps it was an incomplete novel that I finished All this was than 40 years ago so I don t have really sharp memories of my role on this one Mystery Thrillers

Round the Clock at Volari's By W.R. Burnett

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