| STORY DESCRIPTION CASE FILE ??" HORROR! // Name: Honey West // Occupation: Private eye // Age: Over 21 // Measurements: 38"- 22" - 36" // Height: 5' 5" // Weight: 120 lbs. // Description: Taffy-colored hair, blue eyes, baby bottom complexion // Identifying Marks: Small birthmark inside of right trig // Warning: Usually armed ??" the nerviest, curviest, brainiest, sexiest private eye ever to pull a trigger, or toss three gangland gorillas overboard singlehanded. // Residence: Los Angeles. // I'm Honey West, private eye, and I have been invited to one of the wildest birthday parties ever. Before I am even out of the parking lot I have met -- the devil complete with red skin, horns and a barbed tail; a spaceman right out of a Buck Rogers movie; and a Neanderthal right out of the stone age ??" and I get mistaken for the Dragon Lady. // There was nothing strange about that, though, it was a birthday and retirement party for a famous director of horror films. Real horror came later, when I found the dead body in a mummy case. It was no two thousand year old bandage wrapped corpse, but the horror movie director's very young wife. // Homicide Lieutenant Mark Storm wanted me to drop the case, marry him and quit the detective business before I turned up in the same condition. But I told him that would never happen until I had done what I had become a P. I. for in the first place and someday tracked down the man or men responsible for my own father's murder. Besides, the case involved one of the sexiest men I had ever met, a pilot I could hardly keep my hands off. I had to know if he was the killer. // Before it was all over, yours truly had three murders to juggle and I looked likely to be the fourth. But, that's what happens when your beat is La-La Land. The only thing I couldn't figure was the drag queen angle. // "Replete with humor and plenty of risqué innuendos, the Honey West novels [were] an important precursor to some of today's best-known distaff dicks, including V.I. Warshawski and Kinsey Millhone." ??"The Rap Sheet // "In her time (the 1950s) Honey was a rarity ??" an independent woman calling her own shots. She was out there knocking on doors, taking down names, and answering to nobody but herself." ??"Mystery Scene // "Good pacing and character development for the first in a series. A noir Master." -Anna Marie M., Goodreads // |
