Friday's Forgotten Books: The Man with the Iron-On Badge by Lee Goldberg

Friday's  Forgotten  Books: 

The Man with the Iron-On Badge  by Lee Goldberg

The Man with the Iron-On Badge (2005) is the story of Harvey Mapes, a boring man with a boring life. Mapes loves private eye novels and tv shows and, of course, dreams of being a real life PI. Don't we all? When a neighbour hires him to watch his wife, who is behaving strangely,  Harvey watches episodes of Mannix to prepare for his investigation.

The Man with the Iron-On Badge  by Lee Goldberg is a classic PI novel full of great lines and twists and turns with a touch of the Rockford Files and The Big Lebowski about it. There are loads of references to PI novels that I've never read but it didn't stop me enjoying it very much.

It was published in 2005 but is now available to buy as one of them ebook things.

There are more Forgotten Books at Patti Abbott's blog.