Bad News for a Ghost by Jim Guigli
What Jim has to say about Bad News for a Ghost : My novelette, Bad news for a Ghost , started out as a short story, and quickly grew to almost eighteen thousand words. It is now available, with a bonus story, Bart’s First Arrest , on Amazon for ninety-nine cents. It is, as I label it, a Bart Lasiter mystery . The main character, private detective Bart Lasiter, began life in my Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest Grand Prize winning sentence: Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said, You've had your last burrito for a while, whose face said angels did exist, and whose eyes said she could make you dig your own grave and lick the shovel clean. You see, I love classic detective noir . I decided that my BLFC sentence should parody the great private eye stories. Those stories often begin when a beautiful and wealthy ...