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Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman

 
Description: ISBN 0571209513 / Author: Kinky Friedman / Genre: Crime / Thriller / Publisher: Faber and Faber / Dylan Weinberg, an eleven-year-old boy with a rare form of autism, is missing. A stock market wizard, he can only utter one word, 'Schnay'. Kinky takes the case but he faces a ... more
Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman ... dilemma when Lucky, a cat from his aunt Nancy's Utopia Animal Ranch, also disappears. Kinky decides to put his faith in Village Irregular Steve Rambam, who was trained as both a cop and a rabbi, to help find the kid in New York. Meanwhile, Kinky hightails it to the ranch in Texas, where the only witnesses are a dim-sighted, eighty-year-old lady and a frisky canine named Mr Magoo. Luckily, it seems that Lucky stowed away in the back of Nancy's truck, got spooked by some wolves, and then somehow found his way home. As for Dylan, Kinky has a sinking feeling that Dylan's father, fed up with a mountain of medical bills, may have disposed of his sick son. In fact, Kinky finds him tucked away in a slightly less than Dickensian orphanage where he has been abandoned. It's a double happy ending, and even the great Kinkster is at a loss to explain it. The cat, of course, said nothing.

Newest Review: ... to say that it switches at hectic pace between New York and the Texas Hill Country. Kinky handles the Texas case, and the ... more

 ... outsize Texan characters that go with it, himself. The Weinberg case is largely left in the hands of Steve Rambam, one of the "Village Irregulars" - Kinky's Watsons - with chaotic results as he puts more effort into pursuing the missing boy's sister than into solving the case. Much fun, as always, results in the interplay between perennial characters in Friedman's novels: the Irregulars, Winnie Katz of lesbian dance-class fame, and McGovern the newspaper-man. There are also local Detectives Cooperman and Fox...more

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Crowned Review Meanwhile Back at the Ranch - Kinky Friedman: Kinky rides again (1671 words)
by duncantorr - written on 19/06/08 (Very useful, 299 readings)
Rating:

"....And then I'd like to thank Jesus, the world's first great Jewish troublemaker. I'm glad to hear your book's doing well, Jesus. By the way, who's your agent? "Okay, these acknowledgements are starting to cut into my cocktail hour. I've got to close now anyway. Things have been a little rough for me lately. I lost my wife last month. "In a poker game." * Before the book has even begun, you taste something of the special flavour of Kinky Friedman in the acknowledgements quoted above. It's a flavour he has sustained now through over a dozen novels, without any sign that it will lose any of its punch and ...

 

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