Rising Dog - Hardcover

Kohler, Vincent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312070756 ISBN 13: 9780312070755

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Unable to resist reporting on a faith healer who claims to have raised a dog from the dead, small-town reporter Eldon Larkin looks into the story and finds himself amid an environmentalist riot

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

The maniacally inventive Kohler (Rainy North Woods, 1989) now confronts Port Jerome, Oregon, tabloid newspaperman Eldon Larkin with a resurrected dog--a dog that, while cavorting for the camera at the local landfill, finds a mummified foot to chomp on. But whose? While sorting it out, the sex-starved Eldon strikes it lucky with the sheriff's lusty daughter, whose passion barely leaves him time to: survey the taxidermy work of Perry Reaves, who plans to convert the dump into the swanky Forest Vista Estates; attend the funeral of valiant tree-hugger John Henspeter; and deal with the kidnapping of the risen dog, a loudly lamented calamity for the doggie's followers--Cap'n Jasper, Paavo the Finn, One-Square, Wheelie, and Beanpole. More murders come to light before Eldon and his sensation-seeking editor at the South Coast Sun write -30- to an old as well as new Nekaemas County scandal. So wacky it makes an Enquirer headline seem staid. Kohler's outrageous satire of church-builders, gun-collectors, elected officials, and hapless reporters who lace French vanilla ice cream with cognac will tickle your funnybone as well as your libido. And the mystery's not bad either. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Restless Oregon reporter Eldon Larkin, seen before in Rainy North Woods , takes a shot at breaking big news in Kohler's methodical, entertaining mystery. Larkin is disparaging when former alcoholic tugboat captain turned preacher Jasper O'Shay says he has brought his dead dog back to life, but the reporter sees a legitimate story when O'Shay and his likably witless followers vow to fight a condo development proposed for the landfill next to their trailer-camp church grounds. After the "resurrected" dog finds a mummified foot in the landfill, radical environmentalist John Henspeter is murdered. Investigating these events brings the sex-starved Larkin into contact with nymphomaniacal equestrienne Enola Gay Hansen, Henspeter's former girl friend and daughter of County Commissioner "Pumpkin Joe" Nedlee, outspoken condo supporter. More skeletons, Scandinavian bikers, secret jujitsu cults and "workouts" with electric current ("Keeps the muscles loose") lead up to a resolution less surprising than the wild, eccentric setup might lead readers to expect.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312070756
• ISBN 13: 9780312070755
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274