These stories are funny! The 29 Turnbuckle tales offered here mix black humor with formula crime stories in a hilarious twist to the hard-boiled detective tale.Turnbuckle s cockeyed reconstructions of a murder exasperate his logical and long-suffering sidekick, Ralph, but they lead to a solution anywaymost of the time. Turnbuckle may or may not know whodunit but he s always confident that there will soon be another murder."
- ISBN10 0809313979
- ISBN13 9780809313976
- Publish Date 1 September 1987
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southern Illinois University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 392
- Language English