Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola

A Novel

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Mass Market Paperback
$7.99 US
On sale Aug 01, 1994 | 272 Pages | 9780553568912

Kinky Friedman is a Jewish Texan country-and-western singer tunred Greenwich Village amateur detective, with a collection of smelly cigars, a cat, and two former—but simultaneous—girlfriends named Judy. Shortly after the possibly suspicious death of one of his closest friends, Kinky finds himself short one Judy, as Uptown Judy vanishes under mysterious circumstances. Before long, the death and the disappearance seem to be connected, along with Elvis impersonators, a missing documentary film, and a five-year-old mob murder. It’ll take the Kinkster, with an assist from the Village Irregulars and Downtown Judy, to wrap this case like a New York Tex-Mex, decidedly nonkosher burrito.
 
“Kinky is a hip hybrid of Groucho Marx and Sam Spade.”—Chicago Tribune
Kinky Friedman is a musician, author, and journalist. He is the author of nine novels, including God Bless John WayneArmadillos & Old Lace, and Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola, and has written for publications such as Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly. He lives in a little green trailer in a little green valley deep in the heart of Texas. View titles by Kinky Friedman

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Kinky Friedman is a Jewish Texan country-and-western singer tunred Greenwich Village amateur detective, with a collection of smelly cigars, a cat, and two former—but simultaneous—girlfriends named Judy. Shortly after the possibly suspicious death of one of his closest friends, Kinky finds himself short one Judy, as Uptown Judy vanishes under mysterious circumstances. Before long, the death and the disappearance seem to be connected, along with Elvis impersonators, a missing documentary film, and a five-year-old mob murder. It’ll take the Kinkster, with an assist from the Village Irregulars and Downtown Judy, to wrap this case like a New York Tex-Mex, decidedly nonkosher burrito.
 
“Kinky is a hip hybrid of Groucho Marx and Sam Spade.”—Chicago Tribune

Author

Kinky Friedman is a musician, author, and journalist. He is the author of nine novels, including God Bless John WayneArmadillos & Old Lace, and Elvis, Jesus, and Coca-Cola, and has written for publications such as Rolling Stone and Texas Monthly. He lives in a little green trailer in a little green valley deep in the heart of Texas. View titles by Kinky Friedman

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