—And the Girl Screamed

—And the Girl Screamed by Gil Brewer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I had very low expectations of this one going in, what with a two star rating on GoodReads and all, but was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't that bad after all. Hell, I'll take bad Brewer over the best of some authors from the same time period.

Like most Brewer novels this one is short (144 pages) and fast-paced. The timeline of —And the Girl Screamed (1956) is a mere 36 hours or so following the dismissal of a police officer as unfit for duty, the result of gunshot wound that left his right arm crippled. What follows is a series of misadventures that result from the ex-police officer being consistently in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong person, namely the wife of the police department's resident counsel who was one of the men who decided his future with the department.

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