The Boy Detective Fails (Punk Planet Books)
 

The Boy Detective Fails (Punk Planet Books)

by Joe Meno



In the twilight of a mysterious childhood full of wonder, Billy Argo, boy detective, is brokenhearted to find that his younger sister and crime-solving partner, Caroline, has committed suicide. Ten years later, Billy, age thirty, returns from an extended stay at St. Vitus' Hospital for the Mentally Ill to discover the world full of unimagi-nable strangeness: office buildings... (read more)

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Walter M
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I still don't know what was real and what wasn't, and that made it a fantastic story.

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John A
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Having grown up reading "Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective," it really stung to to like this book more. After all, it had so many thing going for it: the casual surrealism of magic realism, archetypal villains, sincere heroes, and a hairpiece factory. But, alas, the total was less than the sum of the parts, and the meandering prose and endless novelty made it feel like a dream: strange, illogical, and easily forgettable.

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