Double Indignity: A Rex Koko, Private Clown Mystery (#2)
Rex Koko, Private Clown
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Publisher Description
In the follow-up to the award-winning Honk Honk, My Darling, NYT best-selling author James Finn Garner (Politically Correct Bedtime Stories) returns to the restless streets of Top Town, a ghetto full of circus has-beens and never-wases, and the stomping grounds of that Sam Spade in Whiteface, Rex Koko.
In this thrilling clown noir caper, Rex Koko is asked to bring in a rogue lion and has his expensive shoes chewed up in the process. While trying to be repaid for them, Rex runs afoul of drug-pushing quacks, alligator hypnotists, Amazonian witch doctors, infantile mobsters and blue-nosed moral crusaders. Before the second act, menace fills the Top Town air like the smells of popcorn, whiskey and fear. The South American jungle was never so dangerous as the tawdry streets of Top Town, "the next best thing to a good time."
It's three rings of danger, suspense and more danger. As e.e. cummings said, "Damn everything, but the circus!"
Customer Reviews
They call it "clown noir," but it's even hipper than that
The biggest mystery here is why this book isn't a #1 Bestseller like some of Garner's other work.
Or maybe it's not such a mystery in this age of prepackaged genres. This book defies genre.
"Double Indignity" is a genuine noir mystery, but it so subverts the genre—with clown-car chases and stoned philosopher geeks (real geeks, mind you)—and it warps suspense with humor that could be called absurdist if it didn't make such sense in this eerily well realized otherworld, that there is no pigeonhole to hold this book.
Unless you create a new genre simply called "Brilliant."