This Dame for Hire: A Novel
by Sandra Scoppettone
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Author: Sandra ScoppettoneEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-06-27
ISBN: 0345478118
Number of pages: 290
Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Book Review: 1940's Slang Too Distracting
Summary: 2 Stars
This story is set in the 1940's, and people talked a little differently back then. So an occasional use of slang from that period would be appropriate. But does it need to be in every paragraph? The female PI talks in 40's slang that's so distracting, I stopped reading on page 20. Here are some examples:
"Putting on the feedbag", "freeze my tootsies", "fell on my keister", "a cigar clenched between his choppers", "eyeballed my gams", "opened my big yap", "coppers", "hooper dooper", "John Q. Public", "ankling down the street". And that's just a partial list from the first 10 pages.
Used that frequently, the slang kept me from getting involved in the story. "This Dame for Hire" might have a good mystery at its center, but unfortunately, I'll never finish the book.
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