Tracy S. (glassyeyedcat) reviewed The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III on + 7 more book reviews
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Since I am an MSU alumni, this was an interesting book. Would like to know how much of it was true.
Molly B. (vintagereader) reviewed The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III on + 21 more book reviews
This is the true(-ish) story of a private detective who tracked down a college student who had gone missing in 1979, and uncovered a whole story about kids playing a kind of live-action Dungeons and Dragons. At least I think that's what it's about; I didn't get very far into the book because the author's voice is so incredibly annoying. I suspect this story is the inspiration for Rona Jaffe's book Mazes and Monsters, which was one of my favorite novels when I was in high school, after I saw the TV movie of it. :-)
Stacy L. (stacyl67) reviewed The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III on + 335 more book reviews
From the back of the book:
Dear's book has all the elements of a good Ross MacDonald detective novel. First there's the missing boy. A shy homosexual youth with a history of drug abuse, Egbert was addicted to science fiction and the fantasy game Dungeouns & Dragons. Then there is author/private investigator Dear, who emerges in his own account as a kind of investigative Ereryman; a hard guy with a soft heart, single-minded in his quest to find Dallas Egbert...Dear immersed himself in Dallas Egberts world. He tried Dungeons & Dragons, experiencing a discomfiting merger of his personality into the role the game required him to play...He grew obsessed with the need to search Michigan State's nightmarish tunnels...
Dear's book has all the elements of a good Ross MacDonald detective novel. First there's the missing boy. A shy homosexual youth with a history of drug abuse, Egbert was addicted to science fiction and the fantasy game Dungeouns & Dragons. Then there is author/private investigator Dear, who emerges in his own account as a kind of investigative Ereryman; a hard guy with a soft heart, single-minded in his quest to find Dallas Egbert...Dear immersed himself in Dallas Egberts world. He tried Dungeons & Dragons, experiencing a discomfiting merger of his personality into the role the game required him to play...He grew obsessed with the need to search Michigan State's nightmarish tunnels...
Lindy S. (luvdbycats) reviewed The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III on + 22 more book reviews
meticulous re-construction of the disappearance and death of college student by famous real life private eye William Dear
