With a brand-new license for More or Less Investigations,
Skip Moore and his pal James are in the PI business.
However, James is pulling Skip into his latest get-rich-
quick deal: working as a carnie for the Moe Show.
Skip has a low opinion of people who work in carnivals, and
after their last adventure almost got them killed and
destroyed their truck, he isn't really excited about being
thrust into another world filled with suspicious characters
and the shady underworld. However, despite his misgivings,
when Moe expresses interest in them for their PI abilities
to discover the origin of accidents and deaths at the
carnival, Skip becomes more willing to work at the
carnival...and it all goes downhill from there. Being a PI
isn't just about asking question and hoping close-knit
carnival workers will present a neatly wrapped confession
and motive: Skip may try to hide from trouble, but it
always seeks James out with a vengeance, so Skip never gets
to avoid dangerous repercussions.
In this, as well as the other Stuff novels, the patter is
snappy, the action is fast, and the characters are so
believable that a reader would recognize Skip and James if
he or she met them on the street, at an evangelist's tent,
or at a carnival. How a book can be so madcap and yet so
believable is part of Bruns' art.
James Lessor and Skip Moore are in for the ride of their
lives.It’s official: stumbling, bumbling James Lessor and
Skip Moore are licensed private investigators. Now, that’s
some scary stuff.
It could take time to get More or Less Investigations off
the ground, so James takes a job with a traveling carnival
show. But this show has a dubious reputation, having had a
string of accidents and at least one death in the past year.
When they’re hired to investigate what’s caused the
carnival chaos, James and Skip set into motion a dizzying,
roller coaster chain of events.
After a terrifying trip on the Dragon Tail ride, a not-so-
fun dust-up in Freddy’s Fun House, and a host of threats,
James and Skip realize they’ll get anything but cooperation
from this cantankerous cast of carnies.
But when a carnival worker is murdered, James and Skip will
have to act fast . . . because they might be next in line.
For James and Skip, the only thing sweeter than the smell
of corndogs and fried dough will be the sweet smell of
success — but in this case, ‘success’ means getting out
alive.
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