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Goodbye Goliath
AuthorElliott Chaze
LanguageEnglish
SubjectMystery
Detective
GenreCrime Fiction
Mystery fiction
PublisherScribner, New York
Publication date
1983
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages180
ISBN0-684-17844-3
OCLC8929565
813.54
LC ClassPS3505.H633 G6 1983

Goodbye Goliath is a detective mystery novel written by American Elliott Chaze, published by Scribner, New York in 1983. It is the first of three novels featuring three recurring characters in a small Southern town: editor Kiel St. James; Crystal Bunt, Kiel's young photographer girlfriend; and Chief of Detectives Orson Boles.

Plot

In a small Alabama town, John Robinson, a disliked general manager of the local paper, The Catherine Call, is found murdered in the news room with a spike through his head. Managing editor Kiel St. James takes it upon himself to solve the crime to help keep the newspaper going.[1]

Reviews

The New York Times said "besides being a traditional, cleverly plotted murder mystery, Goodbye Goliath is an accurate picture of how a small-town newspaper operates. Mr. Chaze, himself a former city editor for a Mississippi paper, knows the ins and outs of the news room. He tells his story with a good deal of sophistication, including some sexual humor that never becomes offensive."[1]

Reviewing Goodbye Goliath, along with two other novels by Chaze, Mr. Yesterday (1984) and Little David (1985), a reviewer for The New Yorker described them as "good, down-home fun with much flavorful redneck talk...plenty of excitement too."[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "CRIME - NYTimes.com". New York Times. 24 April 1983. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
  2. ^ Pronzini, Bill (28 March 2007). "Bill Pronzini on ELLIOTT CHAZE". MysteryFile.com. Retrieved 11 December 2012.


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