The Boy Detective Fails
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417755127 (1417755121)
Publish date: January 1st 2006
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 328
Edition language: English
When he was a youngster, Billy Argo was the best teenage sleuth Gotham City, New Jersey, had ever seen. That is, until his sister killed herself, sending Billy to the mental institution for a decade. Now that he's out, the boy detective has one last mystery to solve...Back when I was a lad, sometime...
An Absurd 2 Stars Random Ramblings .....^^ That was basically what I was thinking by the end of this book. My mind was blank and I found myself absently blinking at my kindle. I couldn't tell if the book was endearing or it had a stupefying effect. After several minutes of mindless blinking, I ...
What a wonderful surreal sweet book. I smiled often as I was reading this one.
What a wonderful surreal sweet book. I smiled often as I was reading this one.
Occasionally funny, frequently bizarre and mostly melancholy, this is a story about being young and gifted, and then being older and fucked-up, and finally being a little bit older and a little bit less fucked-up. It comes with a decoder wheel and it has a cameo by Frank and Joe 'Hartley'. It is ...