The Summer of '72 Diary of a Fadman Author:Paul Ward John Smuck is a bumbling, incompetent detective who always barely seems to land on one foot. This is a parody of detective stories in which Smuck manages to fall into the clues - by no work of his own. Both stories in the book take place in 1972 - two time-related but quite separate stories. The books involve a suicide (or was it a murder?) a... more »nd a kidnapping where no one seems to be missing. Fans of the underdog bumbler who always comes through, the downright silly, and those of us who lived through 1972 will love these stories.« less