SPANKING WATSON - Scarce Fine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Kinky Friedman - SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE

Friedman, Kinky

ISBN 10: 0684850613 / ISBN 13: 9780684850610

Published by New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999, 1999

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 218 pages. Published in 1999. The author's thirteenth novel. One of Kinky Friedman's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Kinky Friedman's "Spanking Watson". The same bizarre mixture of ingredients that has turned Kinky Friedman from a country musician into a popular mystery writer - and hero of his own series. Continues in this exercise oddity, which, true to form, seems to contain something to offend virtually everyone. "If you spend a little time with lesbians and nuns, you begin to see the effect love or the absence of it can have on a human life" (Kinky Friedman). An absolute "must-have" title for Kinky Friedman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Kinky Friedman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American humorist/mystery writers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 0684850613. Seller Inventory # 10768

Bibliographic Details

Title: SPANKING WATSON - Scarce Fine Copy of The ...

Publisher: New York City, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Publication Date: 1999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: 1st Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Just as every dog must have its day, so must every Sherlock have his Watson -- even if the Sherlock in question resides in a downtown loft with an ill tempered cat, a perpetually smiling puppet head, and ceiling badly in need of repair, all thanks in no small part to the often-less-than-light-on-its-feet lesbian dance class held daily in the loft above. And just as misery loves company, so does Kinky Friedman, the erstwhile Sherlock in question, love his tormentors from above -- enough so that when someone sends a threatening missive to the head lesbian dance-person, Winnie Katz, Kinky, in a mood of forgive-and-forget, sets out to find the perpetrator and to save the day. Of course, just as nothing is ever as it seems, so is Kinky "Ace Private Big Dick" Friedman, not quite so altruistic as he may appear -- for, in fact, it was the Kinkster himself who wrote the threatening note to Ms. Katz, and then called upon each of his ubiquitous Village Irregulars (the mighty Mike McGovern, the mercurial Ratso Sloman, the marvelous Stephanie Dupont, and the masterful Steve Rambam) to solve the mystery, and in the process give Kinky a first-rate opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of each of his would-be Watsons. But just as it's not where you start but where you finish, so does Kinky soon find himself caught up in a conundrum of Sherlockian proportions when the bogus death threat turns suddenly, chillingly real -- and an actual killer steps forward to carry out Kinky's impotent threat. And just as all things must end, so must this flap copy.

Review:

"Fort Worth Star Telegram" [Kinky Friedman] combines the deductive moxie of a Chandler or a Hammett with the boisterous irreverence of a stream-of-consciousness raconteur, and the blend is a pungent delight.