Oops!

"You're strutting along, maybe even enjoying tempting fate,
and then oops! you slip on a banana peel." --Alo Nudger

It is impossible not to respond warmly and with affection to John Lutz's rather hap­less private investigator, Alo Nudger. In this, his tenth attempt to make order in the chaos of the world around him, he is coerced by a very young, fearless, feckless pixie of a col­league named Lacy Tumulty to take over a case that she's too busy to handle. It's an easy assign­ment, but Nudger'...