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Move over Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. There’s a new gumshoe named Brute Ballingham.
Together with secretary Moolada and nephew Pinky, this hard drinking private detective is sucked into the seedy 1940s New York crime underworld.
The Excruciating Hello is a five hour wild and bizarre post-modern pastiche of such hardboiled crime noir fiction as The Long Goodbye, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Red Wind, The High Window, Trouble is My Business, The Lady in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely, The Big Sleep, and other noir classics originated by such writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.
Chapter One: The Camp Kilmer Case
Chapter Two: The Sizable Slumber
Chapter Three: The Burmese Albatross
Chapter Four: Pinky’s Pancake Problem
Chapter Five: The Greasy Tide
Chapter Six: To Have A Lot and Not Have A Lot
Chapter Seven: Treble is My Business
Chapter Eight: The Green Wind
Chapter Nine: The Lady Up a Creek
Chapter Ten: The High Widow
Chapter Eleven: Adiós Me Damas
Chapter Twelve: That Monkey Has No Tail
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About Joe Bevilacqua
Joe Bevilacqua, also known as Joe Bev, is a public radio producer and radio theater dramatist. However, his career has taken him into every aspect of show business, including stage, film, and television as a producer, director, writer, author, actor, journalist, documentarian, and even cartoonist. He is also a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York City.