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Reviewed by Donna Stevenson for Readers' Favorite
In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli, also owes money to this racketeer, so Gold is afraid he will end up the same way. A grieving mother arrives at their office to hire them to find her son, Henry, who has been missing for eight years, to which they agree. Then a prominent socialite arrives to hire them not to help this grieving mother because she is a thief. Enter the cops, Callaway and Mason. Callaway informs them that the dead dealer was an undercover cop. Gold Investigations is now fully embroiled in the world of villainous John Fat Gai.
Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman takes readers on a wild ride through the city of Toronto and its criminal underbelly. Although the story is set in 1960s Toronto, it is reminiscent of the 1930s hard-boiled detective novels by Dashiell Hammett, with Gold as the narrator and his sidekick, Birdie, as the muscle. Both Gold and Birdie are terrifically humorous characters, and the author deftly describes their forays through each Toronto locale, from Chinatown to Christie Pits, with much detail and colorful dialogue. The plot is complex, weaving aspects of different lines of inquiry into the final result. However, the story is not done. The author takes one of the secondary plots and turns the story on its head.
