Death and the Language of Happiness

from readafew

I went on an Alaskan cruise and while in Sitka went into a bookstore looking for books by a local author or about the area. I found this, both by a transplant to Sitka and about a (fictitious) Private Eye working in town. This is the 4th book in the Cecil Younger series. Cecil Younger is a privat...

from kerns222

one sad book. All seems going to hell thru the first half. It tries to be a meditation on Wobblie/Northwest US history, but the present day events are too burdensome to stay fixed on the past. Cecil, the not-so-effective private investigator, starts drinking and popping pills, heads off to hell-f...

from readafew

I went on an Alaskan cruise and while in Sitka went into a bookstore looking for books by a local author or about the area. I found this, both by a transplant to Sitka and about a (fictitious) Private Eye working in town. This is the 4th book in the Cecil Younger series. Cecil Younger is a privat...

from bastet

This is the first of the Felix Younger series of mysteries and it's a wild ride. Felix is a dangerous drunk on occasion and not the usual private eye. Straley takes you into some strange new ground with this inventive mystery.

from bastet

This is the first of the Felix Younger series of mysteries and it's a wild ride. Felix is a dangerous drunk on occasion and not the usual private eye. Straley takes you into some strange new ground with this inventive mystery.