A review by sbaunsgard
Good Girl, Bad Girl by Christopher Finch

3.0

Detective novel set in the late 60s about a missing girl. Entertaining, and as far as I can tell, the author really captured the tone of the NYC of those days. The narrative is not as tight as a truly great hard boiled detective novel (see After Dark My Sweet). It felt a lot like reading a Rex Stout/Nero Wolfe with a hard boiled ending. The main storyline and the ending did not match up tonally. The motives, while valid, seemed disconnected from the rest of the book. Two of the characters were very bad people, but it got introduced so late that it didn't make emotional sense even though it made logical sense. Fun read otherwise though.