The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies

The Adventures of Henry Turnbuckle: Detective Comedies

392 pages
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Published: 1 Sep 1987
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ISBN: 9780809313976

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press

Publication date: 1 September 1987

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These stories are funny! The 29 Turnbuckle tales offered here mix black humor with “formula” crime stories in a hilarious twist to the hard-boiled detective tale. Turnbuckle’s cockeyed reconstructions of a murder exasperate his logical and long-suffering sidekick, Ralph, but they lead to a solution anyway -- most of the time. Turnbuckle may or may not know whodunit but he’s always confident that there will soon be another murder.