Dick Frances: Injured jockey stumbles upon sinister plot, then gets beat up.
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Summary of all of Hemingway’s works:
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It was good.
Spider Robinson: After a little weed, tons of booze, Heinlein worship, a guest star, and some good music, the world was saved, again.
Shakespeare Tradegy: boy meets girl, fight scene, comedy crossdressing scene, everyone dies horribly.
Shakespeare Comedy: boy meets girl, comedy cross dressing scene, another comedy cross dressing scene, eveyone lives happily ever after.
Dickens: Poor (but honest and dependable) orphan boy undergoes miserable experiences at hands of nasty authority figures, comes out fine in the end.
Carl Hiaasen: Idiot comes to Florida, does stupid, environmentally damaging things, a bearded man in a showercap comes appears, poetic justice is delivered.
John Grisham: A young lawyer tries to maintain his integrity when he discovers a preponderance of corruption and cynicism in his new profession.
Stephen King: An eclectic group of Mainers worry about personal problems and situations that end up not mattering one bit after the damnedest thing happens.
Haruki Murakami: Thirty-something self-employed divorcee ponders the whimsies of fate and females while cooking and listening to jazz.
Agatha Christie: Rich 1930’s family reunites in their ancestral manor where one (or more) of them end up murdered and it takes a ridiculous-looking Belgian detective or old maid to find the culprit.
H.P. Lovecraft: Aaaiiaiigigiigiigighhhhhhhhh!!!
Cormac McCarthy: the world goes to hell in a handbasket for a man who is already weary.
JK Rowling: An orphan boy is chased by a physcopathic murderer for 7 years.
J.R.R. Tolkein: Jewelry.
Stephanie Meyer: Vegan Vampire and Teenage Werewolf are both chastely interested in the blandest small town girl ever.
Nitpick: If you left out Mindkiller (and only focused on the Callahan Universe), you would be correct…
Martin Amis - East End lout and Regents Park toff are bound up in unseemly circumstances involving the unplanned rape of some unhappy immigrant and, in an amusing twist of fate, the rapist contracts HIV.
Lemony Snickert: Three orphan children are chased by a Count.
Any Spenser or Elvis Cole mystery: Wise-cracking private eye uncovers crime conspiracy with aid of silent brooding superman sidekick, turns down lusty but unworthy babes, is threatened by sinister but clumsy crooks who are vanquished by an explosion of regenerative violence.
Horatio Alger: Poor (but honest and dependable) orphan boy undergoes miserable experiences, is befriended by helpful authority figures, ends up owning half of lower Broadway, befriends other poor orphans.
Any culinary mystery: Caterer with cop boyfriend/husband discovers dead body. With recipes!
Jessica Fletcher: Writer discovers dead body, one of her relatives is the prime suspect, but is found to be innocent.