DANCING IN THE DARK

With George Guidall's track record, all that need be said about this recording is that he is well matched to the material and performs at his usual level. Guidall is one of the industry's finest storytellers. Author Kaminsky gives the storyteller a lot to work with: an idiosyncratic first-person narrator who encounters a colorful range of secondary characters in the course of a multi-layered mystery. The top layer is the hiring of Hollywood gum shoe Toby Peters to protect Fred Astaire from a gangster who wants private dancing lessons for his moll. Then the moll shows up dead.... J.N. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 99]