Archived PI Review: D. C. BROD – Error in Judgment.

D. C. BROD – Error in Judgment. PI Quint McCauley #2. Walker, hardcover, 1990. Diamond, paperback; 1st printing thus, September 1991. [The asking price for the later edition as posted above is $4.50.] As you’ve probably noticed, paperbacks are making quantum jumps in terms of prices. I’m not sure where the upper limit is, in terms of public resistance to bigger and bigger chunks of available spending money, but so far nothing seems to be keeping the cost of reading material from jumping onward and upward, from one month to the next, or so it seems. (Compare the price of this book with the one that went before, from the same publisher. [Murder at Teatime, by Stefanie Metteson, $3,95, published March 1991.] Compare it with the price of paperbacks at the time you’re reading this, several months from now.) But as for the question, “Is this book worth $4.50?,” I’d hesitate a little, but I’m going to say yes. I enjoyed it (and enjoyed it more than I thought I was going to, after the first…