Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in (USA 2019)

From the Publisher:
"Flynn's repartee... is state-of-the-art: rangily allusive, deceptively gentle. And Mcdonald's blend of parody, farce, and sentiment -- with echoes of everyone from Wodehouse to Christie to Preston Sturges -- is rich yet spare, edgily appealing." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Boston Police inspector and undercover international spy F. X. Flynn is back in this third rollicking installment of the Flynn series.

Finding himself in a complicated and sensitive dilemma, Police Commissioner Eddy D'Esopo summons Inspector Flynn to an extravagant country house hidden deep in the woods, cleverly disguised as a hunting and fishing lodge and aptly named the Rod and Gun Club. Unfortunately, Flynn hasn't been called up for a weekend of leisure, he's there to solve the mystery surrounding the death of a young and promising congressman.

Filled with America's eccentric, uber-rich and powerful elites, all fiercely dedicated to the club's secrecy, Flynn is quick to discover that this is no ordinary hunting man's getaway, and just as he begins to uncover conflicting evidence, another member is found brutally murdered.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in. Blackstone Publishing, ISBN: 9781538542040 (May, 2019), 240 p., $15.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
When it comes to crime, Boston Police Inspector and part-time intelligence agent, Francis Xavier Flynn is no stranger to the bizarre, the perverse, or the ridiculous. But when he is suddenly summoned by Police Commissioner ' to a secret wilderness compound far outside of their jurisdiction, he is a little surprised to find himself the hostage of a secret club of the nation’s most powerful and peculiar. Famous for his irreverent methods and razor sharp intellect, Flynn is forced to conduct a clandestine murder investigation. But before one murder is even solved, membership at the Rod and Gun Club continues to drop.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375713611 (March, 2004), 201 p., $12.00.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
"Splendid entertainment... Mcdonald is one of the cleverest writers around." -- United Press International
Flynn's an unwelcome guest at The Rod and Gun Club, a very exclusive preserve where the rich and powerful cavort like boys in heavily shuttered privacy. Its members include the governor, legislators, and even the Boston police commissioner himself, who summons Flynn to do a quiet investigation when a member's shotgunned corpse is found. But Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn plays by the rules: his rules. Then the murders multiply... and the bodies disappear. Whodunit? The judge in the slinky evening gowns? The nudist senior member of an august law firm? The butler, serving for nine counts of bigamy? The clearly vulnerable police commissioner?

Obviously, this is a case for Flynn...

"Shameless establishment bashing... appealingly fresh and impudent." -- Time

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in. Popular Library, ISBN: 0445200456 (July, 1985), 208 p., $3.50.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in (USA 1984)

From the Publisher:
The members of The Rod and Gun Club are extremely wealthy. More important, they are powerful. They are, simply, the elite -- men whose words are law and whose laws are those by which the country runs. One does not say "no" to the members of The Club, nor does one murder them. Until now. Faced with a situation beyond their ken -- the shotgunned corpse of one of their number -- they do the thing they do best: attempt to gain control of events.

To accomplish that, The Club calls on Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn of the Boston Police Department, and even they cannot uncover all the information about his background. It is enough for them to know that he has friends in high places, and they think this makes him one of them. They could not be more wrong.

As Flynn begins to peel layer after layer of lies and deception from the core of The Club, their private preserve becomes littered with bodies. With each new murder, the tension heightens, the cover-ups continue, and Flynn is led astray by the survivors. It is not the way the soft-spoken Inspector should be treated, especially by people he understands too well to respect.

While the members scurry to protect their names and privacy, Flynn shakes a killer loose and teaches the elite a lesson in power.

Gregory Mcdonald: Flynn's in. A Novel with Murder. The Mysterious Press, ISBN: 089296085X (April, 1984), 201 p., $15.95.