Sun 7 Jun 2020
MARTIN MEYERS – Spy and Die. Patrick Hardy #2, Popular Library, paperback original, 1976.
Pat Hardy is an oversexed private detective, living the good life of luxury apartments and bosomy girls. When hired by the niece of a deceased jellymaker to find out how he died, he’s caught in a squeeze of national security and enemy agents.
It’s all nonsense, of course. The highlight of the affair is a meeting with a fat head of security named Julius Foxx, and his assistant Mr. Archibald. There’s a lot of bouncing in bed and other places, a good deal of padding, and little else.
The Patrick Hardy series —
1. Kiss and Kill (1975)
2. Spy and Die (1976)
3. Red Is For Murder (1976)
4. Hung Up To Die (1976)
5. Reunion For Death (1976)
—
Bibliographic Update: In the 1990s, Martin Meyers teamed up with his wife Annette (as Maan Meyers) to write a series of historical crime novels following the lives of one family living in Manhattan over the years.
June 7th, 2020 at 5:31 pm
On his Thrilling Detective website, Kevin Burton Smith has a lot more information about PI Pat Hardy, including the two short stories he was in:
https://www.thrillingdetective.com/hardy_p.html
June 9th, 2020 at 7:25 am
For a long review of HUNG UP TO DIE, #4 in the series,go here:
http://glorioustrash.blogspot.com/2020/06/hung-up-to-die-hardy-4.html
courtesy of Joe Kenney at his Glorious Trash blog.