Reviews for Sorry You've Been Troubled

The average rating for Sorry You've Been Troubled based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-12-28 00:00:00 Mike Larson One of Peter Cheyney's hard-boiled Slim Callaghan thrillers. This one not quite one of his best with a somewhat abstruse plot about an apparently fraudulent insurance claim. As usual with Callaghan he gets involved with a couple of beautiful women before eventually solving the mystery.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-03-10 00:00:00 Randy Calvert I've navigated thousands of streets in scores of cities round the world, only rarely stopping to ponder much how those street names have to say about their cities' stories, whether glorious or sordid. Nowadays many of us traverse modern cities cut into neat blocks by roads efficiently but boringly designated chiefly by numbers and letters, or states and presidents. (As in, "I'll meet you at the corner of 32nd and U, not Virginia and Jefferson.") Especially for those people, John Chases' book "Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children" will make you wish your city elders had the good sense to christen such tepidly named streets instead in honor of the famous or infamous folks who first founded your cities back when the roads weren't more than well-trod ruts in the dirt. Chase's book unveils the long and twisted history of New Orleans by revealing how its streets came to bear the names they do. For anyone who has wandered the serpentine thoroughfares and alleyways of New Orleans, or who wonders what forgotten tales the more singular street names of their own cities may tell, "Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children" is an enlightening and very entertaining read.