A Parade Of Cockeyed Creatures: Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy?
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — visible wear to corners and edges of the dust jacket. Page Condition: yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A wickedly comic crime novel, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures: Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy? sits squarely in the tradition of campy, satirical mystery writing that George Baxt mastered throughout his career. The story chronicles a murder investigation set against a backdrop of outlandish characters — a rogues' gallery of eccentrics, social misfits, and bohemian personalities drawn together by the suspicious disappearance and possible death of a young man. Baxt's razor-sharp wit and flair for the absurd infuse every chapter, turning the whodunit formula on its head with gleeful irreverence. The result is a darkly humorous, vividly populated romp through the criminal and the countercultural, written with the assured hand of an author who never took the genre — or himself — too seriously.
Author: George Baxt
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage — visible wear to corners and edges of the dust jacket. Page Condition: yellowed with some foxing. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible.
A wickedly comic crime novel, A Parade of Cockeyed Creatures: Or Did Someone Murder Our Wandering Boy? sits squarely in the tradition of campy, satirical mystery writing that George Baxt mastered throughout his career. The story chronicles a murder investigation set against a backdrop of outlandish characters — a rogues' gallery of eccentrics, social misfits, and bohemian personalities drawn together by the suspicious disappearance and possible death of a young man. Baxt's razor-sharp wit and flair for the absurd infuse every chapter, turning the whodunit formula on its head with gleeful irreverence. The result is a darkly humorous, vividly populated romp through the criminal and the countercultural, written with the assured hand of an author who never took the genre — or himself — too seriously.