The Falcon in Hollywood

A fun mystery (the solution is similar to the premise of a much better-known comedy of decades later) with crisp dialogue and amusing characters. I'm smitten with the cab driver, but maybe that's just me.

Hardly great crime writing, but it's one of the more entertaining Falcon entries in a while. Good sidekicks, Hollywood spoofs and a decent climax scene. That's all that's needed for these B-mysteries to work.

Old fashioned entertainment, undemanding and cliched but fun.

Following a couple of rather humourless entries in the series, The Falcon is back on track with a fun mystery set in a Hollywood studio. Snappy dialogue, brisk pacing, a plot that's not too convoluted. Even the production values seem a little more polished in this one.