The Fat Man, A Tale of North Pole Noir
Dec 8, 2010
The Fat Man, A Tale of North Pole NoirAuthor: Ken Harmon
Publisher: Dutton/Penguin Group USA
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-525-95195-7
This is definitely a different variety of Christmas tale. It's a play on the old noir stories with a hardened detective, mysterious women and a crime to be solved.
But this story stars Santa's elves and many of the characters we all know from years of Christmas movies.
When a rough, unsavory father of a hardened naughty Christmas boy is murdered - by being shot through the eye with Ralphie's Red Ryder BB gun no less! - Gumdrop Coal elf must find who committed this horrible crime before he's framed for it. Gumdrop is first in line to be pinned with the crime since he's an elf who's had it "up to here" with the naughty children of today's society and the parents that foster their behavior. He's been playing hardball with the coal in the stocking, so it's easy to assume he'd snap.
A fun book to read and anything that has characters from "A Christmas Story" in it is high on my list.
