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The Last Manly Man
The Last Manly Man
The Last Manly Man
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The Last Manly Man

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When TV newswoman Robin Hudson launches an investigation into how far men have evolved, she confronts her most unusual murder case yet in this mystery that the San Diego Union-Tribune hailed as “offbeat and outrageously funny,” by award-winning author Sparkle Hayter 

With her new executive status at All New Network, reporter Robin Hudson is experiencing a testosterone high from bossing around her macho male coworkers. And now she’s heading up a special report on the “man of the future,” exploring the evolution of the male sex.

But when Robin does a good deed for a stranger, it derails her research, leading her to a murder case and into a world populated by wacky scientists, horny, peace-loving chimps, and secret labs. When a dead guy washes ashore on Coney Island, Robin realizes that the next animal marked for extinction could be her.

The Robin Hudson Mystery series is a winner of the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective.

The Last Manly Man is the 4th book in the Robin Hudson Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateNov 18, 2014
ISBN9781497678347
The Last Manly Man
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Sparkle Hayter

Sparkle Hayter has been a journalist for CNN and other news organizations, a stringer in Afghanistan, a producer in Bollywood, a stand-up comic in New York, a caretaker for an elderly parent in Canada, and a novelist of seven books. And some other things that are kind of a blur now. The first novel in her Robin Hudson Mystery series, What’s a Girl Gotta Do?, is the recipient of the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for best first mystery novel, and the series is a winner of the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective. Hayter’s articles have been published in numerous newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the Nation, and New Woman. She currently lives in Canada with her rescued Nepali street dog, Alice, and is working on a new book.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    There is a great deal of pleasure to be derived from hectic absurdity even when it is wrapped around a knowingly noir sensibility. From the absurd premise that a scientist working on a deranged criminal project would sew his secrets into a hat and then present them to his heroine to the wild denouement at a feminist conference, Hayter's deft silliness kept me reading like a man obsessed. I finished the book at a single sitting because I could find no appropriate break in which to set it down. Slight and silly it may be but it is the most enormous fun.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I had read the first three books of this series quite a long time ago. I'm not sure why this fourth book ended up stuck in my TBR pile for so long, nor why I never picked up the fifth.Reporter Robin Hudson begins this story in a great place--she's been made the head of Special Reports at the All News Network, and her love life is looking up. Then she encounters an apparently disoriented man in a hat. The man hands her his hat and makes a couple of nonsensical statements before he's whisked away by a couple of men in a limo.When an unidentified body turns up, she's sure it must be the man in the hat. Suddenly, everything seems to be going wrong. Her division is on the line, and Robin needs a story bigger than the Man of the Future series she's been working on to save it. And she suspects she's--again--in the middle of a murder case.The more she investigates, the more complicated things get, what with militant environmental activists, missing bonobo chimps, extremists in the war between the sexes, and somebody seems to be out to get her for something she hasn't even done.The story is full of twists and turns and a lot of humor. I think I'll have to look for The Chelsea Girl Murders.
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    I haven't finished this because it was just... fairly boring, really.

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