{"id":4151,"date":"2025-02-20T01:24:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T01:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:06:47","slug":"streetwhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4151","title":{"rendered":"Streetwhys"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Scavenger<\/em> and Standalone<\/em>, Chambers has brought his DC PI Dickie Cornish back to have his smarts tested and his heart trampled on again. Dickie\u2019s clean after \u201ca mishap in college\u201d (Howard University, no less) saw him living as an addict on the streets and in various flophouses. He\u2019s the kind of guy who lets his cat eat mayo and crumbs off his plate, but can put a tough facade on when he has to. When a way-out-of-his-league former classmate, now Deputy Attorney General of the United States, asks him\u2014with the threat of a murder charge from his past if he says no\u2014to find out who\u2019s supplying lethal drugs to the area, he\u2019s back on the streets, tough attitude in place. Readers are in for a layered mystery here, with Dickie moving between tent cities and the Department of Justice to figure out what\u2019s going on, and with figures from his past reappearing and adding to the puzzle and mayhem. Throughout, the Black PI\u2019s failure to fit in his old haunts and new ones creates an atmospheric tension that\u2019s imparted by Dickie\u2019s inner monologue and realistic dialogue with characters of all kinds. Noir fans, look out.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Scavenger and Standalone, Chambers has brought his DC PI Dickie Cornish back to have his smarts tested and his heart trampled on again. Dickie\u2019s clean after \u201ca mishap in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[104,68,55,65],"class_list":["post-4151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-african-american-black","tag-hard-boiled","tag-mystery-detective","tag-police-procedural"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Street-400x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Street.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}