The sixth volume in Tony Dunbar’s Tubby Dubonnet series is Lucky Man. As usual with this series, I felt a bit disoriented as I read, like a newcomer to a social group trying to keep up with people discussing personalities and events I’m not familiar with.

Anyway, in the last book, Tubby, a New Orleans lawyer, served as campaign chairman for Judge Hughes. Now Judge Hughes comes to him with a problem. He’s been subpoenaed by the new district attorney, a fanatical reformer. The DA is threatening to indict Hughes for a sexual indiscretion at work unless he fingers other judges for corruption. The trouble is, Hughes says, he doesn’t know about any serious corruption (a little hard to believe in New Orleans, this reader thought) and he doesn’t want to perjure himself (or for his wife to find out).

Meanwhile, Tubby is dealing with the presence in his house of his friend Raisin, temporarily between addresses. Raisin turns out to be a difficult roommate, and he’s going through relationship drama. Tubby himself is contemplating moving to the country, under the influence of a girlfriend who hates the city.

The story involves a homeless man living under a house, an escort service, and a man who dies from swallowing poker chips. It features that favorite fictional trope of our age, the hypocritical born-again Christian. Lucky Man was colorful and entertaining, but left no major impression on me.