A recovering alcoholic with writer's block hooks up with two companions and is introduced to a life of crime.

Kinky Friedman, who would be our contemporary Will Rogers if Will Rogers had been Jewish, smoked cigars, and foolish enough to believe he could govern the great state of Texas, returns with this collection of hilariously raunchy, sometimes poignant, and always insightful essays. With fearless wit and wisdom born from many a late nights experience, Kinky offers both pearls and cowpats that touch on life, death, and everything in between. Considering...

From the author of such outrageous and hilarious books as Elvis, Jesus #38; Coca-Cola, and God Bless John Wayne--a new Kinky Friedman (no relation) detective story. Soon after he is hired by a lovely young woman to find her missing husband, Kinky smells a rat. But it's not until he's been shot by the D.C. police and locked in a burning limousine that he figures he may be the one with his tail in a trap.

Private detective Kinky Friedman accidentally acquires a beautiful woman's cosmetic bag while flying from Dallas to New York and finds himself the target of all sorts of nasty attention when he lands.

Greenwich Killing Time, A Case of Lone Star & When the cat's Away

Stricken with malaria in his Vandam Street home, an unwitting Kinky Friedman is attended to by the faithful Village Irregulars, but when he witnesses a crime from his window, questions about his feverish state of mind are raised.

It's a case of malaria versus murder when private dick extraordinaire Kinky Friedman comes down with a tropical disease, in the jungle known as New York City, and is confined to his loft on Vandam Street in lower Manhattan, a prisoner in his own home with only his cat and black puppet head as company.

Detective Kinky undergoes hypnosis, escapes death threats, and becomes entangled in the same riddle as his dead friend John

It's a case of missing kid and missing kitty when Kinky Friedman, private dick extraordinaire and animal lover nonpareil, attemps to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky, both of who have disappeared.