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From the critically acclaimed author of Confessions of a Tax Collector and The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp comes The Highly Effective Detective--a hilarious and thrilling series debut featuring a lovable but bumbling private investigator. Meet Teddy Ruzak, the oversized, over-his-head P.I. whose first case begins with the hit-and-run killing of a gaggle of goslings. After his ailing mother dies, Teddy quits his job as a night watchman to fulfill his childhood dream of being a detective. With little planning and even less foresight, he hangs up his shingle and hires his favorite waitress from the local diner to be his Girl Friday. And his first case? Bringing to justice the thoughtless driver who mows down six baby geese. Not the most exciting assignment--until Teddy's "wild-goose chase" quickly evolves into an investigation of a vicious murder.
- Sales Rank: #1845795 in Books
- Published on: 2006-06-27
- Released on: 2006-06-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.58" h x 1.04" w x 5.76" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Would-be detective Theodore "Teddy" Ruzak gets his PI career off to a spectacular start in this highly entertaining novel from Yancey (The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp), the first in a new mystery series. Following the death of his mother, Ruzak fulfills a long-held dream of setting up a private detective agency in his hometown, Knoxville, Tenn. He soon gets his first case—who drove the mysterious black SUV that mowed down a row of baby geese crossing the street? As Ruzak sets out in his own remarkably indirect way to uncover the culprit, he slowly discovers he may have landed way over his head. Ruzak, reminiscent at first of both A Confederacy of Dunces's Ignatius J. Reilly and of Columbo, fast becomes his own uniquely realized character. After starting as an especially well-drawn out shaggy dog story, the narrative takes unforeseen, utterly believable twists that wind to an extremely satisfying close. By turns touching, suspenseful and hilarious, this is sure to be one of the most well regarded—and enjoyed—mystery debuts of the year. (July)
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From School Library Journal
Adult/High School–With the money Teddy Ruzak inherits from his mother, the overweight man decides to start his own business. Failing to become a policeman, he's been a security guard for years; now is the time to break out and get into detective work, the reason he was first drawn to law enforcement. Ruzak is an ironic antihero who not only doesn't know much about detecting, but also can't avoid getting suckered by his newly hired assistant (who goes on shopping sprees with his money) or the local deputy (who is too interested in the case of the gosling hit-and-run to be above anyone's suspicion except Ruzak's). The small-town Tennessee setting is both corny and cozy, but not all of the characters here are sweet: in addition to the gosling killer, there's a man with two dead wives and an arsonist. No character is more than stereotypical, and plot twists range from gentle turns to hairpins, but the story is fun and quick. Teens who enjoy Lawrence Block's Burglar books (Morrow/Avon) will find that this one appeals as well.–Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley Public Library, CA
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From Booklist
From the author of the entertaining memoir Confessions of a Tax Collector (2003) comes this novel about an rookie private detective in way over his head. Partially a spoof of classic hard-boiled private-eye stories--the office, the beautiful secretary who really runs the place, the offbeat client--the novel is funny the way Donald E. Westlake's novels are funny: because the author is having a lot of fun as he writes. Dialogue goes around in circles, witty remarks abound, and the central character, 33-year-old newbie detective Teddy Ruzak, is a keeper. David Pitt
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Most helpful customer reviews
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
amusing investigative tale
By A Customer
In Knoxville, Tennessee Theodore "Teddy" Ruzak dreamed of becoming a detective ever since his mom gave him an illustrated Holmes book for his tenth birthday. Encyclopedia Brown enhanced his aspirations, but following high school he failed at the Police Academy. He became a guard and still remains one today at thirty three years old. A week before dying, his mom informs him that he will inherit plenty of money soon; not long after she died Teddy quits his day job to become a private sleuth since he has enough money to live out his dream.
Unlicensed and unperturbed, Teddy opens up his firm and quickly obtains his first client and a paying one at that. Parker Hudson informs him that the police laughed at his complaint about a killer getting away with the crime of running over six goslings; he wants the culprit brought to justice so does elderly visitor Eunice Shriver (not the Yankee one). With the help of his faithful office assistant Felicia, when she is not watching her son, he begins investigating the mass murders of the baby geese, but soon finds himself in the midst of a human homicide too.
This amusing investigative tale stars one of the best protagonists to work the trade in years and will be considered one of the best of 2006. The story line is filled with plenty of realistic twists, but is driven by Teddy, who turns from pathetic loser into THE HIGHLY EFFECTIVE DETECTIVE. The investigation is fun to follow as Teddy blunders and meanders in his wild goose chase pursuit that turns into a whodunit that is light years beyond his experience. Readers will adore his courage and perseverance as he refuses to quit.
Harriet Klausner
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
The stream-of-consciousness detective
By Carole Barkley
The protagonist is Teddy Ruzak, a security guard who always dreamed of becoming a private eye. An inheritance makes it possible for him to go into business as one ... except that he has not the slightest idea of how to run a business or how to detect anything. He manages to get a client ... a guy who wants him to find the person who heartlessly ran over some goslings ... and that leads Teddy into some real detective work involving a murder. He manages to solve the case in spite of himself, with a lot of bumbling along the way. Teddy, who is remarkably knowledgeable about a wide range of subjects, is given to long, rambling digressions that make for very funny and often insightful paragraphs. Teddy's free-association style of thinking is, truth be told, probably pretty close to the way we actually process and synthesize information.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Wears out his welcome long before the end
By Amazon Customer
I'm a sucker for stories about loser heroes who eventually turn it around and save the day. Unfortunately, Teddy Ruzack starts out as a lovable loser but then he just becomes more and more annoying as things procede. His diarhea of the mouth, that starts off charming, just becomes more and more forced as the story progresses. And the story, which is also cute at first begins to drag despite the short length.
Thanks to some fairly convenient plot devices, Teddy figures out (most of) the mystery midway through. Instead of going to the cops and telling them though, he allows himself to be intimidated and chickens out (an action that also results in someone else getting killed). For a while, the mystery's fun and Teddy's amusing, but then his failure of "moral character" (a recurring theme of the book) just makes you realize the guy's too much of a boob. I also rapidly got annoyed by his bitchy secretary - who we're supposed to find tough yet sympathetic because she has a disable kid. Instead she justs takes advantage of our sucker of a hero - who still hasn't gotten that message by book's end.
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