Reviews for Carnival of Death

The average rating for Carnival of Death based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-07-30 00:00:00 Jay North The only interesting part of this mystery is that the person doing the investigating is a TV talk show host. There's an armored car heist and multiple murders. The main event is retold multiple times by different witnesses so new facts come out with each re-telling and that pushes the investigation along. It's all pretty tame, however, with no edge to the action, even during the few scenes where something happens other than Q and A. The dialogue is all pretty much on the nose and that makes it boring. Basically just speed-read this one. Has clowns, if that is your thing, and some carny lingo.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-10-22 00:00:00 Mark Thomas Barnes Actually it's more Noir-Lite than fully-leaded noir. It's one of Day Keene's later paperback originals, published in 1965. There are references to the Bay of Pigs invasion and lots of politically-incorrect observations about women. Also, teenagers say things like, "Get hip, make the scene, man. Don't you dig?" The plot involves an armored-truck heist in the middle of a kiddie-carnival running in a shopping plaza parking lot. It's a good pool-side read but that's about it. The kind of book you pick up and it smells like stale Winstons.