Synopsis
Tuning forks, thugs in plaid cummerbunds, digital TV, a dead biker, a stuffed loon and an old cartoon show? What's all this got to do with a ratty old squirrel puppet? That's the Pipsqueak story, featuring Garth Carson, a New York City taxidermy collector, and his gal Angie. After a murderous melee in an obscure antique store, the puppet goes missing and they find themselves entangled in a deadly swing band conspiracy and Soviet-era secrets. "...the wildest mystery to come down the pike in a stuffed squirrel's age." --Publishers Weekly "The flat-out coolest mystery I've read in years, not to mention the funniest. Brian Wiprud is either a genius or a lunatic. Or maybe both." --Steve Hamilton, Edgar Award-winning author of North of Nowhere and the Alex McKnight series "Splendidly kooky with a sharp dressing, sharp-witted characters woven into a wicked conspiracy theory." --Chris Niles, author of Hell's Kitchen "The Nick and Nora of taxidermy meet the Maltese Falcon--er--Squirrel in another crazy, funny mystery by Brian M. Wiprud." --Sparkle Hayter, author of The Last Manly Man "'Zany,' 'madcap,' and 'romp' must have been invented specifically for Wiprud's smart and funny Pipsqueak. A lunatic, super-fast mystery." --Lauren Henderson, tarty author of Chained and Pretty Boy in the Sam Jones series.
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Author of Sleep with the Fishes, Brian M. Wiprud is also published in magazines and periodicals. contains a full bio, interviews, events, signings and more.
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New York taxidermy collector Garth Carson has just set a covetous eye on Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut squirrel, star of an old kiddies' cartoon show, mounted in a glass case in a north Jersey antiques shop, when a gun battle between a biker and the shop's apparent owner has him ducking for cover in Pipsqueak, Brian M. Wiprud's uproarious second mystery after last year's Sleep with the Fishes. Supported by blurbs from Harlan Coben, Steve Hamilton, Sparkle Hayter and other established pros, this is the wildest mystery to come down the pike in a stuffed squirrel's age.
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Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
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Pipsqueak
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Precedes the Bantam mass market edition by two years. A review copy with promotional letter signed by Wiprud laid in. Advanced Reading Copy label on the front cover. Taxidermist Garth Carson goes after the person who purloins Pipsqueak the Nutty Nut, a stuffed squirrel puppet star of a 1950s kiddie TV show. ; 219 pages. Seller Inventory # 4491
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by author on title page. Light edge wear, front cover has slight curling on side edge, clean copy. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 008767