Book Details
Format
Kindle
Pages
157
Language
English
Description
This is the second of four books about Chip Harrison. I thought it might prove difficult to write a sequel to No Score, but in several respects it's probably a better book. Some of the characters, especially Geraldine, the South Carolina madam, seem to me more interesting and better realized than those in the first book, and I kind of like the story's arc.
Chip Harrison Scores Again was first published by Fawcett Gold Medalin 1971, and reprinted in a two-in-one volume by Countrymen Press in 1984. (The double volume, Introducing Chip Harrison, bears an afterword by one Hilton Crofield, and you may find it in the Kindle description of No Score.) Then in 1996, Signet reissued all four of the Chip Harrison titles as paperbacks, and had the devil of a time packaging them. They wanted to call them mysteries, and the third and fourth books, Make Out With Murder and The Topless Tulip Caper were certainly that, private-eye puzzle mysteries, although not without the dash of levity and erotica that makes Chip Chip. But No Score and Scores Again aren't crime novels by any stretch of the imagination. "It is a mystery" the back cover of No Score shouts, not once but three times. But it's not a mystery, no matter how many times they say it is.
Never mind. Chip Harrison Scores Again was a lot of fun to write. I can only hope it's fun to read, too.
Chip Harrison Scores Again was first published by Fawcett Gold Medalin 1971, and reprinted in a two-in-one volume by Countrymen Press in 1984. (The double volume, Introducing Chip Harrison, bears an afterword by one Hilton Crofield, and you may find it in the Kindle description of No Score.) Then in 1996, Signet reissued all four of the Chip Harrison titles as paperbacks, and had the devil of a time packaging them. They wanted to call them mysteries, and the third and fourth books, Make Out With Murder and The Topless Tulip Caper were certainly that, private-eye puzzle mysteries, although not without the dash of levity and erotica that makes Chip Chip. But No Score and Scores Again aren't crime novels by any stretch of the imagination. "It is a mystery" the back cover of No Score shouts, not once but three times. But it's not a mystery, no matter how many times they say it is.
Never mind. Chip Harrison Scores Again was a lot of fun to write. I can only hope it's fun to read, too.