Slidebox

They weren't lying when they said the elevator business has its ups and downs-just ask Dean Ireland. He keeps getting the shaft and though he's only looking for an easy buck and place to get some studying done when he takes a job as an elevator operator in Greenwich Village before long he's unwittingly drawn into the complex personal lives of the strange people who live there. Whether it's the art-house snobs on four the drunken super in a stupor the herb-smoking doctor the long-ago famous French singer or the rent-controlled but controlling old women on six Dean can't help becoming involved in their lives lies and secrets as well as those of some who live outside the building-Ricky a counterfeit goods dealer who works on Eighth Street and Nikki a mysterious exotic damsel whose disarming good looks mask a dark secret. With its irreverent tone and sharp witty dialogue Slidebox is the kind of novel you read in one sitting and leaves you captivated long afterward.