 | Stumptown #1 (Oni Press) "The Case of the Girl Who Took Her Shampoo But Left Her Mini" Greg Rucka Matthew Southworth Lee Loughridge |
Stumptown is not just another detective noir story. for starters, its set in Portland, Oregon. i don't think that's regular territory for noir tales. but anyway, here we have Dex (short for Dexedrine. heh.) Parios, P.I. and gambling addict, getting hired to find the missing granddaughter of the casino she's run a huge tab in. Dex, who runs Stumptown Investigations - presumably specializing in missing people - may have bitten more than she can chew as she gets threatened, harassed, threatened again, and shot all in less than 24 hours. Greg Rucka builds the intrigue masterfully, aided in the best way by Matthew Southworth's fittingly-accurate depictions of real-life moody Portland scenery. this definitely goes into my list of favorite non-mainstream books, behind Scalped and Chew.
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