Definitely has a feel of a story directed at an audience thirty years ago. Still a decent book.
Told mostly through dialogue, this detective tale moves quickly, leaving you frantically trying to keep up with solving at least two main problems: drugs and murder. His methods would not hold up in today‘s world so it‘s an interesting bit of time travel. This Fletch is a bit more serious than the one in the film. There‘s an awareness in both characters that‘s similar, though, a sense that Fletch knows more than he should and more than he lets on.