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The Fat Man : A Tale of North Pole Noir by Ken Harmon (2010, Hardcover)

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A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir, The Fat Man makes the perfect gift for the literary-minded. A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one special day each year. But somewhere along the way things went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense down every chimney. Either way, North Pole disillusionment is nothing new: Some elves brood with a bottle of nog, trying to forget their own wish list. Some get better. Some get bitter. Gumdrop Coal wants revenge. Justice is the only thing he knows, and so he decides to give a serious wakeup call to parents who can't keep their vile offspring from landing on the Naughty List. But when one parent winds up dead, his eye shot out with a Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model BB gun, Gumdrop Coal must learn who framed him and why. Along the way he'll escape the life-sucking plants of the Mistletoe Forrest, battle the infamous Tannenbomb Giant, and survive a close encounter with twelve very angry drummers and their violent friends. The horrible truth lurking behind the gingerbread doors of Kringle Town could spell the end of Christmas-and of the fat man himself. Holly Jolly!

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525951954
ISBN-13
9780525951957
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84525139

Product Key Features

Book Title
Fat Man : a Tale of North Pole Noir
Author
Ken Harmon
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Mystery & Detective / General
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
288 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.9in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
5.4in
Item Weight
11.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3608.A7487f37 2010
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
Reviews
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don't let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies." -New York Timesbestselling author Steve Hockensmith (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family." -New York Timesbestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn't I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn't as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It's the "Naughty List" for you, if you don't buy this book for Christmas!" -Louise Penny, New York Timesbestselling author of A Brutal Telling, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don't let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies." - New York Times bestselling author Steve Hockensmith ( Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls ) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family." - New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn't I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn't as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It's the "Naughty List" for you, if you don't buy this book for Christmas!" -Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of A Brutal Telling, "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean...and who wears jingle bells on his curly-toed shoes and stands about two-foot three. A man who is, in other words, an elf. But don''t let the green tights and stocking cap fool you: Gumdrop Coal is the roughest, toughest punisher of the naughty since Mike Hammer, even if he does smell like peppermint and fresh-baked cookies." - New York Times bestselling author Steve Hockensmith ( Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls ) "Noir and Christmas go together like Santa and his reindeer in this stylish elf fable by Ken Harmon, a newcomer who knows noir like he apprenticed with Hammett. An excellent stocking stuffer for the mystery lover in your family." - New York Times bestselling author John Lescroart "This is one of those wonderful books where I hit my forehead and cry, "Why didn''t I think of that?". As I read I kept hoping it wasn''t as brilliant as I feared - but it is. It''s the "Naughty List" for you, if you don''t buy this book for Christmas!" -Louise Penny, New York Times bestselling author of A Brutal Telling
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2010-033738
Dewey Decimal
813/.6
Dewey Edition
22

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