I read this book in one day. It is only 138 pages but it held my interest enough to keep me reading and reading till I finished. It is a book of humour written 10 years ago by Richard "Kinky" Friedman. It is styled as a guide to his adopted city of Austin, Texas. I lived in America for 30 years b...
This is the first Kinky Friedman book I've read and it was an enjoyable romp - without a great degree of substance - through some anecdotes and a crime story which wasn't really what the book was about. With the author as main character it was unclear how much of this might be fiction and how muc...
Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window gets an affectionate kick in the butt in this homage from master crime writer, philosopher, and equal-opportunity offender Kinky Friedman. It's a case of malaria versus murder when private dick extraordinaire Kinky Friedman comes down with a tropical ...
Kinky Friedman has always proven himself to be a master of the offbeat and irreverent, and still manages to pull off a helluva whodunit in the process. Now the Kinkster may have met his match in this superbly crafted, fiendishly clever tale of a murderer who's methodically killing off unsuspectin...
Walter Snow is doomed. He stares at the blank pages in his typewriter, hoping for the spark that will finally ignite his ambition to write the Great Armenian Novel.And then he meets Clyde Potts. She is beautiful, intelligent, charming, perhaps psychic, and, for better or worse, very possibly unba...
It's a Christmas tale only a man called Kinky could tell.King Jonjo Mayo the First is in a bind. Every Christmas, he commissions an artist to paint a traditional nativity scene to be dramatically revealed after midnight mass. This year, though, the date is mere weeks away, and he still has not ye...
Originally appearing in The Kinky Friedman Crime Club, now published as a single volume, this is the third Kinky Friedman mystery. A purloined feline from Madison Square Gardens' cat show is a tip-off to a trail of murders, drug rings and gang wars that only Kinky Friedman can follow.
Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit...
or simply “Texas”) has influenced the flavor of Austin so completely that it would be impossible to imagine our city without it. As for giving you a comprehensive view of the university, its past, its present, its future . . . well, that would be more detail than the Kinkster signed on for. The s...
It wasn’t clear that I was getting anywhere but at least I was working on my tan. All I was wearing were my Jesus boots, the same bathing suit I’d owned for twenty-five years, and an increasingly surly expression. “I don’t understand the purpose of the exercise,” I said to...
The White Knight led the little procession while the Black Knight and the Gray Knight rode alongside the wagon, almost as if they believed their precious young passenger might try to make a break for it. It was, indeed, the furthest thing from Benjamin’s mind. He had not even waved goodbye to his...
According to Fox, however, he and I had known each other for thousands of years. Of course, he wasn't the one who had to cough up the ten thousand dollars. But let's take one thing at a time. I will admit that I became a vegetarian during roughly this time frame because of...