The Boy Detective Fails is a strange story, often amusing and often absurd. Almost every character in the book is eccentric in some way, making the whole novel surreal. Fortunately, the oddness is never too distracting: even at its most weird, the book still grabs your attention/5(43). · Playing such mysteries as "The Case of the Brown Bunny" against the mysteries of mortality and mankind's capacity for evil, the latest from Meno (Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir) presents former child sleuth Billy Argo at 30, having just finished a year stint in a mental hospital, where he was confined after his teenage sister Caroline's www.doorway.rury: Free. Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender As Hellfire. He was the winner of the Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition/5(38).
Editions for The Boy Detective Fails: (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published in ), (Kindle Edition), (Hardcover publishe. The Boy Detective Fails. Joe Meno. $; $; Publisher Description. In this "charming" and melancholic novel, a former child sleuth "investigates the hard-to-crack case of Lost Innocence" (Entertainment Weekly). the book fails too. or maybe i did - i was only able to get to page often very excruciating pages. so the Boy Detective lives in a postmodern world of amazing crimes that can be solved by boy detectives to much public acclaim, featuring villains without faces (or memories), buildings that disappear, a shadowy conspiracy, adorable but lonely children whose pet cat has been beheaded, a.
In the twilight of a childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, Boy detective, is brokenhearted to find his young sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at Shady Glens Facility for Mental Competence to discover a world full of unimaginable strangeness: office buildings vanish without reason, small animals turn up without their heads, and cruel villains ride city buses to complete their evil schemes. The Boy Detective Fails by Joe Meno Billy Argo is the Boy Detective of the surreal fantasy town of New Gotham. With his sidekick, little sister Caroline, he solves mysteries and defeats the evil schemes of local villains: he may not do things by the book but goddamnit, he gets results. As much as any character, I believe he serves as the template for Billy Argo, the title character in Joe Meno's The Boy Detective Fails. Unlike Encyclopedia Brown, however, Billy solves some big mysteries, including ones involving murder, arson and kidnapping.
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