The Time Machine Did It
by John Swartzwelder
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Author: John SwartzwelderEdition: Paperback
Published: 2004-06
ISBN: 0975579908
Number of pages: 144
Publisher: Kennydale Books
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Book Review: "As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach."
Summary: 5 Stars
A truly inspired, funny little novel from comedy great John Swartzwelder.
It involves the worst detective in the city (you'd have to be pretty desparate to hire him as you'd pass 3 other better detectives in the same building on the way to him) trying to solve a crime that will push his already limited talents to their limits. His name: Frank Burly (well, not really, but that does describe him well), a perfect send-up of those tough, quick-witted detectives you find in other mysteries.
Burly may be tough (well, pretty tough; he can take a beating, anyway) but he sure isn't quick-witted. He wants to come up with the snappy one-liners but ends up just staring at the person at which he's trying to crack wise. So when you have somebody like that trying to deal with something like time travel, you end up with very funny consequences.
Not only that but the book is simply packed, and I mean STUFFED, with hilarity on every page. Swartzwelder is an endless fountain of comedy about everything imaginable.
Satirizing mystery, science-fiction and all of history, this book will have you laughing uproariously.
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