{"id":1168,"date":"2005-07-10T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2005-07-10T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/07\/top_of_the_heap\/"},"modified":"2005-07-10T21:20:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-10T21:20:38","slug":"top_of_the_heap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/top_of_the_heap\/","title":{"rendered":"Top of the Heap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0843953527&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;npa=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;IS1=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nTop Of The Heap is another in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hardcasecrime.com\/\">Hard Case Crime<\/a> series. This time it&#8217;s by Erle Stanley Gardner and details a complicated investigation involving seedy motels, mob leaders, shady companies, strippers, and illegal gambling dens. All the ingredients to make a good noir thriller then.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t find it quite as noirish, or as entertaining as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/weblog\/archive\/001207.html\">Grifter&#8217;s Game<\/a> did, but I&#8217;ll stick with this series as they&#8217;re trashy enough to make great reads, but not so trashy that they&#8217;re not actually worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top Of The Heap is another in the Hard Case Crime series. This time it&#8217;s by Erle Stanley Gardner and details a complicated investigation involving seedy motels, mob leaders, shady companies, strippers, and illegal gambling dens. All the ingredients to make a good noir thriller then. I&#8217;ll admit that I didn&#8217;t find it quite as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}