A Case of Lone Star - Kinky Friedman

Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman

dozen novels, without any sign that it will lose any of its punch and piquancy. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (MBatR from here on) is vintage Friedman, a polished exposition of the formula he has made his own. The formula is half detective story, half semi-surrealistic comedy. The stories are all told in the first person and the leading character is, of course, none other than Kinky himself. Kinky fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes, and tends to address his sidekicks as Watson, but the impression conveyed is more of a cross between Philip Marlowe and Groucho Marx, with a few echoes of Johnny Cash (and maybe even Frank Zappa) thrown in for luck, if you can imagine such ...

Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola - Kinky Friedman

most important thing we d learn during our three years of studying was that we "ought never to have been born"! It was this teacher who assigned this novel by Kinky Friedman as part of a crime fiction module. I sensed, then, that the novel might be a little unusual and, boy, was I right! I had never heard of Kinky before I d read this book. Don t make the same mistake as I did and type kinky into your Google search as it will throw up all sorts of naughty links. Friedman is in fact an American singer, songwriter, novelist, humourist, political candidate and the founder of a animal sanctuary. A curious kind of guy, he started writing detective style novels in ...

Spanking Watson - Kinky Friedman

Kinky Friedman is a Jewish-cowboy-country-singer-cum-novelist who writes what I call soft-boiled yolky mysteries starring his alter ego Richard Kinky 'Big Dick' Friedman, an amateur sleuth who lives with his cat in a 'loft' in New York City. The apartment directly above his is occupied by Winnie Katz and her lesbian dance class, whose exertions are causing his ceiling to crumble... When a chunk of plaster lands on his head, leaving him feeling like "Rip Van Winkle on gorilla biscuits", he vents his frustration by writing a threatening note to Winnie. Unfortunately his pal Ratso discovers it. But, thinking quickly, Kinky sees a way to get his ...