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The Busy Body

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery & Detective
Unabridged   5.5 hour(s)
Publication date: 02/28/2012

The Busy Body

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Digital Download ISBN:9781611748109

Summary

The funeral for a Mafia drug mule leads to trouble when the body goes missing.

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Product Description

Al Engel had worked his way up to being Nick Rovito’s right-hand man, near the top of the Syndicate. And this was a delicate job that Rovito had given him: retrieving a very important jacket, loaded with heroin, from the fresh grave of the drug mule who was accidentally buried wearing it.

Rovito orders Engel to go to the grave in the early hours of the morning, dig up the coffin, and get back the suit—plus kill two bird with one stone (so to speak) and whack the guy who will help with the digging. There’s just one problem (at least there’s just one to begin with): It turns out the grave is empty. Now it’s Engel who finds himself “in deep”.

Busy Body is early Westlake, as he was mastering the genre he would become known for: the comic caper.

Reviews/Praise

“The book’s insouciance and wit are as exhilarating as they ever were. Narrator Brian Holsopple delivers much of the story in a friendly voice that is just right for the Westlakian hero, Al Engel, an amiably amoral man given to exclaiming ‘Oh ho!’ when uncovering new mischief.”
      —Washington Post

“Narrator Brian Holsopple tells the story well. Westlake’s tough guys, hapless goofs, and alluring broads all achieve authenticity in his vocalizations.”
      —Addicted to Story Blog

Author Bio

DONALD WESTLAKE (1933-2008) wrote more than 100 books, winning three Edgar Awards and the title of Grand Master from the Mystery Writers of America. He also wrote 5 screenplays, including The Grifters, for which he received an Academy Award nomination.

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