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| Cafe Respect: a mystery novel | 
| Author: Steve Scott
Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $16.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 3454272
Media: Paperback
Edition: 0
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 290
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0595369545
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780595369546
ASIN: 0595369545
Publication Date: December 21, 2005
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Condition: Brand New! Perfect Condition!
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Product Description
When Anna Beth Roper hires the beautiful Laura Bellows to replace Jane Evans, a waitress who failed to come to work one morning, Roper soon realizes theres more to Laura than just a pretty face. After Jane and a slick gambler turn up murdered, Palm Springs detectives begin to show up at the Cafe Respect on a regular basis. Roper is the ringmaster at the cafe, but its her customers who performRamon Patencio, the handsome Indian big shot from the Spa Casino; Virginia, his dart-throwing secretary whose projectiles might include more than just four-letter words; Roxanna, Ropers fortune telling mother; the bald-headed Curly Bill Smuin, proprietor of the Glad Hand Saloon up the street; a Puerto Rican cook whose chili-soaked specials once caused a law suit; the FBIand does Palm Springs Detective Logan Kind only have one hand? The Palm Springs in Cafe Respect isnt about golf courses and movie starsits full of suspect friendships, slow mystery, poignant love, Indian Casinos that sprout up in the desert faster than the yearly crops, and a knife-wielding killer whose shrewd disguises blend in with longtime losers.
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It's the characters, stupid May 10, 2006
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If you like language that leaps beyond the usual parameter of non-verb construction, this is the book for you. Steve pushes metaphor outside the known world, forcing the reader to stretch and grow. Another aspect of this book which you'll find unforgettable is his creation of zany, improbable scenes inhabited by some of the most outrageous characters you've ever met (with the possible exception of your in-laws). You'll laugh at their antics, their down home language and bubba mentality in Palm Springs, the playground of the stars of yesteryear. scene .
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