A Gypsy Good Time
{{Short description|1992 novel by Gustav Hasford}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
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| name = A Gypsy Good Time
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| image = A Gypsy Good Time.jpg
| caption = Paperback Fourth Printing
| author = Gustav Hasford
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| country = United States
| language = English
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| genre = Detective fiction
| publisher = Washington Square Press (PB)
| release_date = 1992
| media_type = Print (paperback)
| pages = 177 pp
| isbn = 0-671-72917-9
| isbn_note = (paperback edition)
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A Gypsy Good Time is a 1992 noir detective novel by Vietnam War veteran Gustav Hasford and the last novel he completed before his death in 1993, at forty-five years old. It is written in the style of classic hardboiled detective fiction.
Plot
Vietnam veteran and Private Investigator Dowdy Lewis, Jr. struggles with alcoholism, his time in the Vietnam War and his own rapid aging. He meets Yvonna Lablaine, an attractive red-headed outcast from a prominent Hollywood family, and falls in love. One day however, after a brief but passionate romance, Lewis finds Lablaine dying at his door, murdered. He then embarks on a quest involving drug dealers, mobsters and Hollywood moguls in order to find the truth about what happened and to take revenge on the culprits.
Availability
According to the Official Gustav Hasford Website maintained by Hasford's cousin, The Short-Timers,{{cite book|author=Hasford, Gustav|title=The Short-Timers|publisher=Harper & Rowe|edition=1st (hard cover)|date=1979|isbn=978-0060117825|url=http://www.gustavhasford.com/short.htm|access-date=2015-04-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121123054625/http://www.gustavhasford.com/short.htm|archive-date=2012-11-23|url-status=dead}} The Phantom Blooper,{{cite book|author=Hasford, Gustav|title=The Phantom Blooper|publisher=Bantam Books|edition=1st (hard cover)|date=January 1, 1990|isbn=978-0553057188|url=https://archive.org/details/phantomblooper00hasf|url-access=registration}} and A Gypsy Good Time,{{cite book|author=Hasford, Gustav|title=A Gypsy Good Time|date=March 1992|publisher=Washington Square Press|edition= First (paperback) |isbn= 978-0671729172}}{{cite web|work=Gustav Hasford's official website |title=Web page dedicated to A Gypsy Good Time |url=http://www.gustavhasford.com/gypsy.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728185006/http://www.gustavhasford.com/gypsy.html |archivedate=July 28, 2012 }} are currently out of print. The texts of the two war novels and an excerpt of A Gypsy Good Time were publicly available at the website for at least a decade,{{cite web|url=http://www.gustavhasford.com/ |title=Original version |website=Gustav Hasford home page, with the full text of The Short-Timers and The Phantom Blooper novels included |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110131163348/http://www.gustavhasford.com/ |archivedate=January 31, 2011 }} but the site has since been redesigned, and Hasford's cousin, who manages the site, has stated he "likely won't be reposting the novel" there.{{cite web |url=http://gustavhasford.blogspot.com/2013/01/about-this-site.html |title=About This Site |website=GustavHasford.com |author=Jason Aaron |date=January 2013 |accessdate=September 7, 2014}}
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Category:American mystery novels