<p>Kinky Friedman, the original Texas Jewboy, takes us on a rollicking, rock-and-rolling tour of his favourite city: Austin. Maybe you want to know where to find President Bush's favourite Austin burger joint. Or maybe you want a glimpse of Willie Nelson's home. Or maybe you're itching to learn the history of a city that birthed Janis Joplin, Stevie Ray Vaughan and countless other music legends. It's all here in "The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic", the slightly insane, amazingly practical, and totally kick-ass guide to the coolest city in Texas by none other than Kinky Friedman. This ain't no ordinary travel guide, neither. 'Like most other busy cities these days, Austin is not very effectively traversed by foot,' Kinky explains. 'You must understand that 'a walk in Austin' is primarily a spiritual sort of thing.' As might be expected from this politically incorrect country-singer-turned-bestselling-mystery-author, the Kinkster's tour includes a bunch of stuff you won't find in any other guide, from descriptions of Austin's notable trees and directions to skinny-dipping sites to lists of haunted places and quizzes and puzzles. So put on your cowboy hat and your brontosaurus-foreskin boots and head down south with the only book you need to get to the big heart of this great city.</p>

The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A Walk in Austin

Travel

Kinky Friedman

United States

Vintage Books USA

<p>Kinky Friedman, the poet of country music, the misogynist of mystery, the writer, musician and all-rounder, is the author of this collection of tales of murder, mystery and general screwing around.</p>

More Kinky Friedman : Musical Chairs', 'Frequent Flyer', 'Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Faber and Faber Limited

Little old ladies are dropping dead at an alarming rate in the vicinity of the family's ranch/summer camp in Texas, and Kinky is asked to investigate. A faded photograph of ten pretty girls is just the clue he needs to unravel a devious scheme of revenge for personal wrongs and social snubs.

Armadillos and Old Lace

Literature & Fiction

Faber Faber Inc

The Kinkster is back and in top supersleuth form. In Armadillos & Old Lace, the hip, witty, cosmically cryptic poet returns to once again ponder the imponderables and disentangle a mystery or two, and this time he's temporarily forsaking the mean streets of Manhattan for his old Texas stomping grounds. When Kinky Friedman decides it's time to take a break from big-city murder and mayhem, he transports himself and his cat to Texas to get back to his roots, to commune with his dad, to play with his pet armadillo, and to blow the city soot from his fevered brain. Kinky arrives at his family's combination ranch/summer camp for boys and girls to find urgent messages from Pat Knox, the local justice of the peace (who got that job by beating Kinky in what clearly had to have been a rigged election). It seems Her Honor is a tad concerned that little old ladies in the area are dropping dead at an alarming rate. Fearing something foul is afoot, she persuades Kinky to undertake some sleuthing. Undaunted by the thought of running up against the toughest lady sheriff in Texas and only a little perturbed by a mass of swarming bees, the Kinkster takes off in his talking car to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Several bunches of yellow roses and a faded photograph taken many years ago of ten pretty girls dressed in white and ready for the cotillion are just the clues Kinky needs to finally unravel a devious scheme of revenge for personal wrongs and social snobbery. A colorful Texas story of the cosmic variety, Armadillos & Old Lace is Kinky Friedman at his dead-level best, mixing his irresistible irreverence with a really great mystery.

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Gardners Books

Armadillos & Old Lace

Faber and Faber

Again ensconced in his quaintly appointed Lower Manhattan loft, Kinky Friedman, ace private eye, takes the deceptively tame assignment of helping his pal Ratso find his real mother. But a job that begins with some ungenteel poking around in a dusty New York warehouse leads to even untidier mayhem.

God Bless John Wayne

Faber&Faber

Poetry

Greenwich Killing Time

The first of the novels featuring the foul-mouthed Kinky Friedman, ace private eye. In Greenwich Village, a corpse is found holding 11 pink roses - and the suspects are as strange as the crime.

The incorrigible country-singer-cum-writer offers another  mystery starring his eponymous protagonist, who undertakes a  life-threatening mission to aid his old pal, Willie Nelson, when Nelson  becomes involved in a medicine man's death. 100,000 first printing.  Tour."

Roadkill

Who would slap an Indian curse on a good ol' boy like country singer Willie Nelson? Probably the same person who's been firing shots into Willie's hotel room and sending nasty notes promising the cowboy crooner a one-way ticket to the big rodeo in the sky. Could it have something to do with the medicine man who got run over by Willie's tour bus one dark night? If anyone can find out, it's ace troubleshooter and well-known troublemaker Kinky Friedman--on the road again in his tenth wickedly funny, off-the-wall mystery caper.Get Kinky on the Web: www.kinkyfriedman.com

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The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic: A Walk in Austin

More Kinky Friedman : Musical Chairs', 'Frequent Flyer', 'Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola

Armadillos and Old Lace

Armadillos and Old Lace

Armadillos & Old Lace

God Bless John Wayne

God Bless John Wayne

Greenwich Killing Time

Roadkill

Roadkill