Tue 2 Dec 2025
Archived Mystery Review: GABRIELLE KRAFT – Bullshot.
Posted by Steve under Bibliographies, Lists & Checklists , Characters , Reviews1 Comment
GABRIELLE KRAFT – Bullshot. Jerry Zalman #1. Pocket, paperback original; 1st printing, 1987.
Jerry Zalman is an updated version of Perry Mason, you might say, a Beverly Hills lawyer with a zest for the good life (California style). He even finds his own bodies when business is slow, but he hot-tubs the girls he meets on the job, which Perry never did.
Anybody who goes to bed with a blue-velvet sleep mask is not likely to becomes one of my favorite detective heroes. All that kept me reading was that this case involves a monumental collection of rock & roll memorabilia. [Otherwise], insipid. As bad as a made-for-TV movie.
The Jerry Zalman series —
1. Bullshot (1987)
2. Screwdriver (1988)
3. Let’s Rob Roy (1989)
4. Bloody Mary (1990)
December 2nd, 2025 at 10:19 pm
Yes, I know I may have missed the point, and maybe even the reading pleasure, of this book. I don’t recall whether or not I purchased copies of the rest of the series, Based on this short review, I probably didn’t.
After writing these four books, along with a couple of standalones, plus a sizable number of short stories, Gabrielle Kraft seems to have disappeared.
Here on the blog linked to below, the writer, who obviously liked the books more than I did, talks about trying to find out what happened to her. The blogger hadn’t had much success when she wrote it, but it’s an old post. No updates, though.
http://maggieking.com/what-ever-happened-to-gabrielle-kraft/