Title: Who Killed Jerusalem

Author: George Albert Brown

Genre: Mystery

ARC: Audiobook

Publisher: Galbraith Literary Publishers

Published: February 6, 2023

Rating: 3 stars

Synopsis:

In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco's golden boy poet laureate, is found dead in a locked first class toliet on an arriving red-eye flight.

Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet's death.  Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with members of Jerusalem's coterie.

Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective's clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet's mind.  Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love=making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem's seductive, all encompassing metaphysics.

But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun,

Before Ded's death dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case and perhaps in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?

My Thoughts:

While I enjoyed the story and the plot, I am not a fan of mysteries with comedy.  Don't get me wrong, the story was really great, but the narrator sounded like a robot, and the comedy side of the mystery was not appealing.  As a result, the audiobook is only getting 3 stars

About the Author:

George Albert Brown is a graduate of Yale University and Stanford Law.  He started as a hippie in San Francisco's Haight Asbury, and retired at age 40 after having co-founded a successful international finance company.  Following stints thereafter as a humorous auth and an angel investor in over a score of high-tech university spinouts, he built a catamaran in Chile anf for more than a decade, cruised it across the globe with his significant other.  

Today, as a father of three grown children, a grandfather of four not yet grown children, and an involuntary lover of stray cats, he continues his peripatetic lifestyle by other means.