The pick of the collection is Dick Contino‘s Blues, the longest of the six previously published stories. Adrift in the hazy Hollywood ’50s, accordion king Contino wades through nightclub gigs, broads, scandal and auto shows while saving a girl from « pinko » influences and from a publicity-grabbing fake kidnapping that unfortunately coincides with a serial killer’s rampage-in-progress. — June

Black-and-blue in tone and garishly colored in content and style. — New York Times Book Review