Sunday, April 18, 2010

You Have Killed Me by Jaime S. Rich and Joelle Jones

Graphic Novel set in the 1930s-era. Gumshoe Antonio Mercer finds himself unable to resist rich red head girl named Jennie when she comes to him to find her missing sister, Julie, who disappeared from a locked hotel room bathroom they shared. To further complicate matters the missing dame is his ex-lover - Mercer is actually a rich boy slumming it.

In the search to find Julie, Mercer faces down a number of tough guys, running the gamut from cops, both honest and bent, to gamblers, mob bosses and even short-tempered and knife-wielding musicians, while following the gal's trail, but nothing is ever as it seems.

I enjoyed the illustrations by Jones but found the storyline rather convoluted and hard to follow and especially hard to figure how the "twist" at the end. Plus it really should have been called "I Killed You!" but that's just my opinion. So I was thankful I had just borrowed it from the library versus actually buying it.