He Huffed and He Puffed
By Barbara Paul
1989
First Published
3.25
Average Rating
226
Number of Pages
Part of Series
From Library Journal—Nasty, unethical business tycoon A.J. Strode needs one more block of shares in order to destroy House of Glass. He blackmails three apparently honest stockholders with evidence of past murders, and then arranges for them to choose who will sell and who will go to jail. The three "victims," of course, concoct a vicious plan of their own—one which ultimately involves another murder. Changing points of view, an elegant mansion setting, and standard plot manipulations all lead to a serious, slick production. Despite a few stylistic flaws and a total lack of the comic, this is nearly as good as But He Was Already Dead When I Got There.
Avg Rating
3.25
Number of Ratings
57
5 STARS
5%
4 STARS
33%
3 STARS
44%
2 STARS
16%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Barbara Paul
Author · 20 books
Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database. Barbara Paul is an American writer of detective stories and science fiction. She was born in Maysville, Kentucky, in 1931 and was educated, inter alia, at Bowling Green State University and the University of Pittsburgh. A number of her novels feature in-jokes: for example Full Frontal Murder borrows various names from the British TV series Blake's 7.
