The Same Lie Twice
By Ron Goulart
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Jim Benning makes $25,000 a year writing drivel for the admen at the Arbogast & Joseph Agency, and his wife thinks he’s worth a whole lot less. Joanna is a model: nervous, beautiful, and prone to meltdowns. In a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage, she agrees to a few sessions with a psychiatrist in San Ignacio—a quack whose psychobabble is more sinister than it appears. But when Joanna disappears, Jim’s only hope is John Easy, the hippest P.I. in Hollywood. Jim gives John a matchbook found in his wife’s purse for a club called Maybe—a swinger’s hideout where morality is not in style—and John plunges into the seedy side of sunny San Ignacio, where the copywriter’s wife led an entirely different sort of existence. To save Joanna from her shadow self, John Easy will have to swing harder than ever before.
Ron Goulart
Ron Goulart (1933-2022) was the author of several series and standalone novels across several genres, as well as nonfiction books on a variety of pop culture subjects, including pulp magazines and comic books. An Edgar Award nominee, a Nebula Award finalist, and an Inkpot Award-winner, his books include the TekWar series (with William Shatner), the Fragmented America books, the Marvel Novels Incredible Hulk: Stalker from the Stars and Captain America: Holocaust for Hire (as Joseph Silva, with Len Wein and Marv Wolfman), and the Mysteries Featuring Groucho Marx, including Groucho Marx, Master Detective, Groucho Marx and the Broadway Murders, and Elementary My Dear Groucho.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5There was a year or so during the early 1970s when I read one Ron Goulart book a month - because he published one book a month. LibraryThing has him down for 185, but I'm sure they are missing more than a few. All the books I read were science fiction, however; this is a mystery in the hard-boiled tradition of Raymond Chandler with a few vulgarities thrown in that Chandler didn't need. I imagine Goulart pretty much typing this book out and sending them to the publisher without a second glance. As a result, there are some annoyances, such as overuse of the same adjective to describe a particular character within the space of a few pages. Luckily, Goulart is a good enough writer that even as quickly as he must have written this, his style is still better than some of his competition. He doesn't make you cringe. Still, one of the hallmarks that kept me coming back to his books was that while they were not serious novels, they were quite funny. This book only has a few moments of humor, some of it forced. The lead character is a cardboard stereotype and the situations are straight out of Chandler and his legion of imitators. Goulart's Private Eye, John Easy, must interview a few typical LA-area characters to get to the bottom of the mystery of a missing wife. The plot is fairly well done and holds the reader's interest, but the settings are pretty generic, and Goulart is rarely up to the type of social observation that makes this type of novel rise above the ordinary.