Curse of the Missing Puppet Head

At the most outrageously inopportune moment, the little Negro puppethead - Kinky Friedman's keyholder, talisman and surrogate Pinocchio-like son - goes missing, and the Curse of the Missing Puppethead takes effect.

In a desperate effort to find the missing puppethead, Kinky mounts his most intense and entertaining investigation ever. Anyone and everyone is a suspect in Yorick's disappearance, even the Village Irregulars. When Lexie, a beautiful and exotic escapee from Winnie Katz's Lesbian Dance Class, enters Kinky's life, the curse takes a dramatic and hilarious turn for the worse. Kinky discovers that until he find his big pup- pethead, his little puppethead will also be missing in action.

As Kinky's personal and professional lives begin to spiral downward, he leaves no rock unturned and no clue unpursued in a furious effort to recover the puppethead. Just when it appears that he may have found the first real clue to Yorick's whereabouts the Curse of the Missing Puppethead shifts into high gear, and Kinky's college friend, Nick "Chinga" Chavin, is falsely charged with the hit-and-run murder of a child. And not just any child, but the young son of Big Jim Cravotta, the Butcher of Staten Island.

While Chinga hides from his pursuers by putting down roots in Kinky's loft, Kinky - aided by Ratso, Rambam, McGovern and the other extraordinary characters that make up the Village Irregulars - races to find the real killer before Big Jim finds Chinga.

Curse of the Missing Puppethead is crime solving, mystery writing, roman- tic encounters, friendship and a unique philosophy of life bundled into a wildly entertaining novel by an original and unique talent.