The Case of the Sliding Pool: A Masao Masuto Mystery
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- Synopsis
- Detective Masao Masuto of the Beverly Hills police force, despite having been raised in California from birth, is a Zen Buddhist and a karate expert. His thoughts and utterances are straight out of a third-rate samurai movie -- a lot of baloney about karma (not a particularly Zen concept) and death with honor. One rainy day, he is called upon to investigate a swimming pool, which has collapsed during a mudslide to reveal a skeleton. The corpse is determined to have been killed in 1950; but when Masao tries to track down any of the construction workers who might have dug the swimming pool 30 years ago, he find that a barehanded killer is literally beating him to the punch by mere minutes. Even more disturbing, it emerges that his wife's rich uncle might have been involved with the digging of the pool; the wily old man alternately helps and hinders Masuto in his search for the identity of the long-dead John Doe. I really wanted to like this book because it has an Asian-American protagonist; but it was not to be. Detective Masuto lies between Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan in believability; it's difficult to accept that the author (novelist Howard Fast) has ever met any Nisei. The only saving grace of the book was the plot, which was unusual if not convincing.
- Copyright:
- 1981
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 187 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780440120926
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 06/14/06
- Copyrighted By:
- E. V. Cunningham
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- NW
- Proofread By:
- David H. Carter
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.