In a Pigs Valise - Softcover

Overmyer, Eric; August, Darnell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 088145074X ISBN 13: 9780881450743

Publisher: Broadway Play Pub, 1989

Synopsis

"IN A PIG'S VALISE is a musical comedy spoof of the hot-cool private-eye pulp fiction associated with Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. Except that it's wilder, much wilder. VALISE, among other oddities, features a stubby villain named Shrimp Bucket, an 'ethnic dancer' heroine named Dolores Con Leche (or, as the gumshoe hero, James Taxi, calls her, Sadness With Milk) and, in a bit part homage to Hammett's real-life lover, an undercover F B I agent named Lillian Hellman... Spiced with songs by August Darnell (Kid Creole) that bear such lines as 'Kiss me deadly' and 'Never judge a thriller by its cover' ... [a] broad, winking satire of the language and plot conventions of the old books and movies." Richard Christiansen, The Chicago Tribune

Edition details

• Publisher: Broadway Play Pub
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 088145074X
• ISBN 13: 9780881450743
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English