Brett also is geographically challenged, confusing Austria and Australia in fact, declaring that they are basically the same and who cares. Brett has a colorful and humorous command of the English language which differs greatly from school taught English, but it deftly conveys his tale, his personality, and his fears. His new case is also one he relishes because it was brought to him by a couple of his antagonists from the Birchwood police force.ĭ’Aguanno lets Private Eye Cornell tell his own story in his own wiseguy vernacular with many of his statements punctuated with an expulsion of phlegm deposited at the feet of who he is conversing with. Or as Brett might say, “As any red-blooded American unscrupulous bastard would do.” Brett is proud to proclaim the title of the most unscrupulous bastard in the town of Birchwood Rhode Island. It is a case he welcomes, because it gives him a windfall of money to squander and a beautiful damsel in distress to take advantage of for a short period of time. Brett gets involved in a case of a missing woman who he discovers, as his investigation proceeds, has numerous serious health issues that make her disappearance even stranger. Underneath all the bravado, insolence, immaturity, shallowness and innumerable other terrible traits lies a lonely confused man who is discovering that now in his thirties he is not really the man he once was. David D’Aguanno has penned another adventure of his wise guy talking private detective, Brett Cornell, who presents a conceited, façade to all of those he encounters.
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