God Bless John Wayne - 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 ...

Steppin' on a Rainbow - Kinky Friedman

help and hindrance from his friends, The Village Irregulars, has to date solved every one of his cases. ~~ For anyone new to Kinky Friedman, I should perhaps explain that he was the one-time leader of an outlandish 1970’s country rock band, who later re-invented himself as a successful and best selling crime novelist… [More detail, should you be interested, can be found in my opinion over in the Music Category] ~~ To fully appreciate the humour in these books, I recommend that you read them in publication date order, thus achieving a manageable level of recognition of both the cast of characters and the inter-related (and frequently repeated) ...

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 ...