Harry Lipkin, Private Eye

This book was quite the change of pace, a very “cozy” mystery feel with a teeny-tiny touch of hard-boiled flavoring. An odd PI with an offbeat approach to things, along the lines of [a:Paul Tremblay 648612 Paul Tremblay http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233454723p2/648612.jpg]'s Narcoleptic Detective or [a:Rick Yancey 3377941 Rick Yancey http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267926830p2/3377941.jpg]'s Highly Effective Detective. Lipkin's an amusing enough character and the robbery suspects he's investigating are fairly interesting, but the mystery's pretty flat and the novel doesn't have a lot going for it. In the end, it was a nice enough diversion for a couple of hours, but that's basically it.