Sentences with word «shamus»
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After a long hiatus, the dynamic duo of shamus canine and hyperkinetic rabbity thing is finally back in a brand new adventure.
Thursday Next is what we might call a literary detective — books are living things in Fforde's world, and sometimes you need a shamus to jump into the pages and set things right.
He also brought in a whole panoply of his other touchstones, ranging from Ross Macdonald's Lew Archer books and The Rockford Files to the Firesign Theater and «the shamus of shamuses Johnny Staccato.»
Most of the noir detective story archetypes are here — the tough shamus (Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant), the murder suspect (Charles Fleischer as long - eared fugitive Roger Rabbit), the femme fatale (Kathleen Turner as cartoon bombshell Jessica Rabbit), the suspicious boss (Stubby Kaye as studio head Marvin Acme) and the formidable lawman (Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom).
The shamus, Harry D'Amour, is based in New York, but all the trouble begins when he heads for Los Angeles to work on a case and finds himself involved with the worshipers who desire to reincarnate their evil master Nix, who was killed by the sorcerer Philip Swann, a former student of Nix.