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Picked this up during the long (by British standards) car ride to Wales for my grandmother's funeral, and it definitely kept me occupied. I couldn't quite keep some of the characters straight, but it felt surprisingly like something that someone might write now, parodying the SF pulp era. Surprising small love: the (male) detective being very involved with his wife and child.

This was the #DoubleSpin! And this month's #BookSpinBingo card is made!

I'll call this a pick because I liked it as a light mystery with a writerly twist. I was also tickled to find Boucher making a cameo appearance in his own book 😆

"The science fiction fans are highly organized, and they have Annual World Conventions. The last one was in Denver, so the fans, ever incorrigible neologists, called it the Denvention. The next one's here in Los Angeles, and I'm afraid it's called the Pacificon."

I too am an incorrigible neologist! ?