- Unknown Binding
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743217020
- ISBN-13: 978-0743217026
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"The" (Baltimore) "Sun" If you yearn for assurance that our Puritanical tendencies have not smothered unconventional viewpoints altogether, look no further.
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It all starts with a casual flirtation, two people on a flight from Dallas to New York. She's gorgeous and mysterious; he's a private detective. When the plane lands, the detective -- our hero, Kinky -- finds he's been left holding the bag, literally. The woman, having asked the Kinkster to watch her luggage while she visits the can, has taken a powder and somehow vanished. Mystery Woman does turn up again, but not before Kinky has claimed the interest of an array of suits from the State Department, been party to a thwarted kidnap attempt by Arab terrorists, and found a dead Israeli agent parked on the toilet of his downtown Manhattan loft.
Employing the able-bodied assistance of his usual sidekicks, the Village Irregulars, Kinky eventually gets to the bottom of all the comings and goings of the many visitors to his loft, including two late-night visits by the mysterious and suddenly affectionate woman from the plane and one not-so-late-night visit by her angry brother.
Raunchy, offbeat, and hilarious, "The Mile High Club, " complete with a surprise ending, is Kinky at his considerable best. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"IF there's one thing I hate," I said to the beautiful woman on the airplane, "it's meeting a beautiful woman on an airplane." Read the first page
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Throw down the puppet-head, the Kinstah is back on form! And back on Vandam Street, hampered as ever by the Village Irregulars.
Friedman's fictional and personal worlds grow ever more enmeshed, as he increasingly entrusts his readers with his darkly-witty off-topic broodings alongside the snappily-paced narrative. Although the parodied habits of Great Detectives are piled-in cheek-by-jowl with the well-worn catch-phrases ("Hold the weddin'", "Start Talkin'!" etc) to good humorous effect, there's a new reflective nature to the "Big Dick" appearing here - which makes the book more rewarding than more recent 2-D offerings like "Spanking Watson", where his ennui shone-out aplenty. The older, lonely figure of the Kinkster now increasingly resembles the dark avenger of Gotham City - a development that may usher-in a fresh crop of fine novels? Under the Keystone slapstick of the stakeout there's a tragicomic bitterness and worldweary sadness.
Add a contemporary "maguffin" in the shape of mysterious middle-eastern terrorists, along with the reassuring presences of old foes like Fox & Cooperman and an excellent "locked-room" style puzzle to solve, and you've got Friedman's best work to date.
Leave the cat in charge, pour yourself a shot, and curl-up with this - it's killer-bee.
- Neil
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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It pains me to say it but the Kinkster has really lost the plot. Where as gems like 'spanking watson' and 'elvis, jesus and coca-cola' were full of witty one liners and amusing plots, as time went on the books tread the same old ground, the jokes get repeated and a lot of it is well..childish, not even funny. You get the feeling that having found a winning formula by God he's going to stick with it except the schoolboy humour gets increasing purile and this and 'rainbow' are two reasons why i will cherish those early novels, but avoid anything from now on. Some jokes really don't need repeating hundreds of times.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Well, my mother perhaps, but no one who enjoys superbly written, very funny, top-notch American detective fiction. Who anyone who just wants to enjoy something as stylistically perfect as a Kinky Friedman novel. Plot isn't the most important aspect; it's the way it's written. There's a darker, more reflective edge to this novel, which follows straight on in time from "Spanking Watson" (which is also superb). Buy and enjoy.
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