Beam
Me Up, Scotty by Michael
Guinzburg
Amazon.com synopsis: "In a bone-chilling black comedy, recently recovered drug addict Ed T. provides his own lethal interpretation of the Twelve Step Program, when he begins brutally murdering crack dealers."
Big Blondes by Jean Echenoz, Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
A "noir-derived comic thriller" (Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/97)
Elmore Leonard has some very blackly-comic
crime novels.
[ Excerpt
from Out of Sight ] [ Review
of Out of Sight ]
Colin Bateman: most recent novel, Of Wee Sweetie Mice and Men.
In films, the Coen brothers (Fargo) and Tarantino (Pulp
Fiction).
PARODY/PASTICHE
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sebastian Wolfe
Amazon.com synopsis: The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes gathers
together the best of the hilarious mishaps that have befallen the greatest detective
of them all--the tales that Watson couldn't or wouldn't tell, for reason of
discretion or just plain incredulity. This hugely entertaining volume--essential
reading for Sherlockians and a feast of amusement for everyone else--is a collection
of parodies, burlesques, pastiches and "unofficial" adventures.
CAPER NOVELS
Mostly, Donald Westlake
An Embarrassment of Corpses by Alan Beechey.
SERIES
Joan Hess
The Maggody novels starring Sherriff Arly Hanks
The Claire Malloy series
Anything else
Simon Brett
Charles Paris books