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Book Review of The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

The Dungeon Master: The Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III
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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...