{"id":1347,"date":"2004-09-10T14:58:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-10T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1347.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:16","slug":"laurence-shames-the-naked-detective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2004\/09\/10\/laurence-shames-the-naked-detective\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurence Shames &#8211; <i>The Naked Detective<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was actually Alex who chose this book for me, because it had a duck on the front of it.  I was very pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be rather good.  Pete Amsterdam retired to Key West to enjoy the easy life.  He doesn&#8217;t do any work, but his accountant convinced him to register as a Private Investigator, so he could offset some property improvements against tax.  It&#8217;s all a great wheeze, until a desperate individual tries to hire him, and he gets tied up in a real murder investigation.  The book has engaging characters, a light sense of humour, and paints a lovely picture of laid back island life.  A nice, refreshing little read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was actually Alex who chose this book for me, because it had a duck on the front of it. I was very pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be rather good. Pete Amsterdam retired to Key West to enjoy the easy life. He doesn&#8217;t do any work, but his accountant convinced him to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}