Reviewed by Dr. Karen Hutchins Pirnot for Readers' Favorite

Don Bruns just keeps on getting better and better. In his latest "stuff" book, entitled Too Much Stuff, two misfit characters named James Lessor and Skip Moore leave their moving business behind to travel to Key West in their truck, which has now become a private investigator vehicle. The two are hired to solve a 1935 mystery for the descendent of Matthew Kriegel, one of the financial directors of the East Coast Railway. In 1935, the force of the hurricane blew a train off the tracks while the train was loaded with millions of dollars in gold bricks. Reportedly, Mr. Kriegel had the presence of mind to hide the gold, and his great-granddaughter now wants the treasure found.

It is just her luck that the great-granddaughter stumbles upon Lessor and Moore. They have just enough lack of knowledge and expertise in the PI business to bungle their way through from one clue to the next. During their adventures, they run across a dead man and are attacked several times themselves. Although the two neophyte detectives can barely manage to manage themselves, they stumble upon a plot involving two local doctors. This gets them into trouble with the police. Just when the reader feels all is lost, the location of the hidden treasure is discovered.

Don Bruns has a wonderfully silly and witty manner of developing his characters. Despite their character defects, the reader cannot help but root for the good guys and cheer when the villains get their just desserts. Bruns' "down home" manner of narrative was a delight, and I feel that surely his characters must remain alive and well to fight yet another day.