MelodramaĪbounds, amid many red herrings. Karp's second novel will depend on how willing they are to have theĮxcitement of a murder mystery embellished with broad farce. Realize that the statue now contains a human corpse, Amanda and Jet teamĪustralian novelist Karp professes a love for "books that areīizarre and exciting and ridiculous." Readers' reactions to Enmeshed in a farcical adolescent feud with Amanda, JettisonĪllan-Ashwood vows to find the treasure first however, when they TeenĪmanda Spillane's family is still searching for Spivey'sįortune. Generations later, a statue of Spivey stands in the town plaza. Life thanks to the help of a resourceful sharpshooting woman. Spivey into humiliating situations, including per forming an obscene Alabama Sam, a shape-shifter who may be the devil, lures In the earlier tale, twenty-year-old Spivey Spillaneīattles con artist Alabama Sam, who has stolen Spivey's hidden Skunks Dance, California one during the Gold Rush era, and the other in In alternate chapters, Karp splices two stories set in the town of
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