ARMADILLOS & OLD LACEThe Kinkster is back and in top supersleuth form. In Armadillos & Old Lace, the hip, witty, cosmically cryptic poet returns to once again ponder the imponderables and disentangle a mystery or two, and this time he's temporarily forsaking the mean streets of Manhattan for his old Texas stomping grounds. When Kinky Friedman decides it's time to take a break from big-city murder and mayhem, he transports himself and his cat to Texas to get back to his roots, to commune with his dad, to play with his pet armadillo, and to blow the city soot from his fevered brain. Kinky arrives at his family's combination ranch/summer camp for boys and girls to find urgent messages from Pat Knox, the local justice of the peace (who got that job by beating Kinky in what clearly had to have been a rigged election). It seems Her Honor is a tad concerned that little old ladies in the area are dropping dead at an alarming rate. Fearing something foul is afoot, she persuades Kinky to undertake some sleuthing. Undaunted by the thought of running up against the toughest lady sheriff in Texas and only a little perturbed by a mass of swarming bees, the Kinkster takes off in his talking car to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Several bunches of yellow roses and a faded photograph taken many years ago of ten pretty girls dressed in white and ready for the cotillion are just the clues Kinky needs to finally unravel a devious scheme of revenge for personal wrongs and social snobbery. A colorful Texas story of the cosmic variety, Armadillos & Old Lace is Kinky Friedman at his dead-level best, mixing his irresistible irreverence with a really great mystery. |
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... Octavia , near Kerrville , who had had her lips sewn together . Had this detail been included , I thought , it was doubtful that the flap , no pun intended , would ever have died down . There didn't seem to be any link between these ...
... Octavia , near Kerrville , who had had her lips sewn together . Had this detail been included , I thought , it was doubtful that the flap , no pun intended , would ever have died down . There didn't seem to be any link between these ...
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... Octavia , " said a voice out of the fog . I remembered Octavia . Her lips had been sewn together . Not an item you easily forget . I walked around the grave . The marker was a stone cross . There was a scroll on a little pedestal ...
... Octavia , " said a voice out of the fog . I remembered Octavia . Her lips had been sewn together . Not an item you easily forget . I walked around the grave . The marker was a stone cross . There was a scroll on a little pedestal ...
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... Octavia . I said , ' Octavia , you got a big mouth , honey . Don't you go spreadin ' scandal . You could ruin that poor girl . ' " Octavia , I thought . Octavia . Oh , my fucking god . Octavia with her lips sewn together . I waited ...
... Octavia . I said , ' Octavia , you got a big mouth , honey . Don't you go spreadin ' scandal . You could ruin that poor girl . ' " Octavia , I thought . Octavia . Oh , my fucking god . Octavia with her lips sewn together . I waited ...
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