I enjoy the genre, the references to Chandler got me hooked early but may have raised my expectations.

It started out well enough, but Mandel Kramer seemed to underplay the character, trying to be dry, but he came off seeming disinterested and uninvolved. Once he got taken prisoner this thing really fell apart, the central character became a bystander.

I thought maybe it was supposed to be funny, with the Shakespeare thing and all, but it fell flat in that department, too. No clever ironies that I could pick out. Just a literary alias thrown in. Lots of cliche-ish stuff

Then, this woman shows up, walks freely right into the bad guys lair, and wraps up the whole thing very neatly, after being repeatedly told not to talk, it\'s a trick, they\'re listening, etc. And the bad guys just walk away and leave them together? I didn\'t get it.

Our hero detective really didn\'t do anything except get beat up and bound. The case was \"solved\" without him. We spend 15 minutes on him being grout, then grggy, then helpless, then not knowing anything. Then we got blitzed in the last few minutes with all of this plot info that he could have been learning if he\'d escaped from his captors from Bo Peep\'s place in Act 1 (after taking a few hard shots fom the punk), caught up to the green gal, and they pursued leads together, maybe took a shier under the eye, solved the caper and fell into a big smooch at the end. That would have been more satisfying (for both my enjoyment and to honor the traditions of the genre), than him just being held captive while she comes in, tells him about everything and announces that she had already solved the mystery that he hardly ever knew anything about. I realize that my suggestion would be perhaps more cliched than what we got, but I\'d rather the thing be predictable than nonsensical. This was sort of like watching the first half of a flm and then having someone else tell you about the second half.

I like this style and I had not heard it before on RMT, but I am afraid I was disappointed by most of the last two acts after a very promising start.

Still, as always, it is a treat to kick back and listen to these plays. I\'m wondering if there are any others utilizing this style in the RMT catalog. I like the style. I\'ve heard some of the stuff, like <span><a href=\"http://www.otrcat.com/johnny-dollar-yours-truly-johnny-dollar-p-2020.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Johnny Dollar\">Johnny Dollar</a></span> and, of course, <span><a href=\"http://www.otrcat.com/philip-marlowe-p-1727.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Marlowe\">Philip Marlowe</a></span>, that seems more authentic. probably because it originated during that era instead of 30+ years later.<br>