Focusing the Private Eye
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Book Description
Finding Dad: A Mysterious Term Paper is the Fourth Balona Book by Jonathan Pearce
Community college criminal justice freshman Joseph Oliver Kuhl organizes fellow students and relatives to bring to justice Balona's "Starfighter," the mysterious individual who has been systematically burning down the town's central business district. The book is presented as Joe's Criminal Justice term paper, but without footnotes as Joe has come to realize that typing footnotes is a drag. (The action takes place prior to Joe's learning MS Word, a computer program that college students have found compiles footnotes with ease out of material you needn't even have read.)
Joe's detecting efforts are triumphant, but because of the surprising involvement of a family member, Joe is unable to reveal the culprit and accept appropriate credit for solving the crimes.
Joe finally acquires his own car and names it "The Yellow Peril" at the suggestion of fellow student Amelia Earhart Wong. Joe has been ordered by his mother to marry heiress Claire Preene, but Joe's passionate admirer Patella Sackworth may yet have something to say about that.
From the Author
Members of the Joe Kuhl Fan Club (contact: able209@mediaone.net) describe Focusing the Private Eye as "a really good book," "really funny," "crazy but fun," "I especially love Joe's poetry," and "reading a book is a small price to have to pay for so much laughter." Professional reviewers have thus far curled their lip at the book, eschewing comment and evidently preferring offerings with more gratuitous sex and violence. Joe would probably prefer more sex; he does seem to be a late bloomer.
Focusing the Private Eye
Focusing the Private Eye,Jonathan Pearce,Infinity Publishing (PA),0741403056,Fiction,Fiction - Mystery/ Detective,Humorous,Mystery & Detective - General,Crime & mystery,General & Literary Fiction
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