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Overview
Welcome back to Lady Sally's...Your pleasure is her business!It's the best little you-know-what in the universe. Where adults of all species and persuasions indulge in wild life, liberty, and the pursuit of a really good time. So join in the fun - and don't worry. You'll respect yourself in the morning...
Mike Callahan's wife is back and business is booming. The word in the universe is that Lady Sally really knows how to give her customers a good time. Attracting unusual characters, her establishment is a remarkable place where a jinxed private detective can change his luck and a telepath is twice the woman she seems.
Editorials
Publishers Weekly -
As the title of the second Lady Sally Callahan novel shows, Robinson ( Callahan's Lady ) has not lost his touch for puns. Unfortunately, he has lost his touch for character, plot and dialogue. This book is hilarious in places, but its disparate parts never merge as a whole. The story is disjointed, and there are long stretches where nothing relevant happens. Private detective Joe Quigley is hired to track down an invisible attacker at Lady Sally's brothel, and ends up saving the world from rabid pacifists who want to nuke it. In between, everyone makes love and makes puns. The characters are collections of eccentricities rather than real people. When they aren't busy punning and wisecracking, they are preaching at Quigley, whose main function is to be amazed at everything he sees. Near the end of the book the tone suddenly turns serious, and the change is jarring. Readers who feel a need to groan at Robinson's puns would be better off rereading his early Callahan collections (e.g., Callahan's Cross-Time Saloon ). (Nov.)Elliott Swanson
This is the book that might have emerged if John D. MacDonald's novel "The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything" (Fawcett, 1962) had been put in a blender with one of Robinson's Callahan time travel yarns. It's actually two novellas, probably tacked together by an editor well aware that novels sell better than story collections. In the first half, a private eye named Joe Quigley goes after a murderous time traveler who has been causing mayhem in a high-class whorehouse with a combination pocket watch/time machine. Later, Quigley is made privy to the existence of the time-hopping Callahans and tracks a nuclear terrorist planting subterranean bombs. (In all fairness, the MacDonald work is clearly cited as source material.) Fans of the Callahan series will probably want to read this, too, but it hurts to pay hardcover prices for a snappy title and a work that would have been more appropriately published as a paperback original.Book Details
Published
December 31, 1993
Publisher
New York : Ace Books, 1993.
Pages
257
Format
Paperbound
ISBN
9780441469291