Monthly Archives: August 2008

the dark goodbye-vol. 1 — frank marraffino (author) & drew rausch (illustrator)

4 stars

Maxwell “Mutt” Mason, works as a pri­vate detective. His heart is in the right place but his taste for the bot­tle is too. So in the odd chance he gets a case he has to drag him­self out of Gill’s cafe and into the office where his ‘lovely’ assis­tant Melissa awaits him. Well not exactly him, but his for­mer part­ner Shinjo, away on leave in the loony bin and prob­a­bly never to be released again. But a girl can hope, right?
The odd chance of a case has come and before him stands a beau­ti­ful dame called Livinia who wants her twin sis­ter to be found. But what looks like a straight for­ward case, soon becomes a strange adven­ture full of crazy and mur­der­ous peo­ple and other ‘things’. Has Livinia been com­pletely honest?