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Overview: Combining humor with the mystery thriller pulp-noir novel, Larry Baker series follow the TV gag writer Larry Baker, as he would come to solve a series of cases. A somewhat reluctant amateur sleuth, he always has a witty to line to hand to break the tension and keep the laughs constantly flowing. Always finding himself in a variety of different and increasingly difficult situations, he continually seeks to find justice and illuminate the truth. With a legacy that still lives on to this day, there’s still many fans that look to this particular series.
Whilst this series may have only run for a total of six books, and it not being one of Brown’s most prolific series, it still is a collection of solid tightly knit mysteries. Starting out in 1965 and running till 1975, this would mark some of the later titles of Yates under the Brown brand name. It shows him having more fun with the format, playing with the genre template. It would also contain a lot more straightforward jokes, which he made under the context of his lead protagonist Larry Baker.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
As a definite product of its time, this really is a must for any fans of the genre hoping to look into its roots and format. This also goes for any fans of the author Alan Geoffrey Yates and his work under the name of Carter Brown and all that he had to offer. Working as solid pulp mysteries of their era, they offer a very clear template of the noir genre during that period, with the many tropes that would become a mainstay for many years to come. Using humor alongside the darker hard-boiled aspects, it plays both of these elements off against one another in order to provide the tone that Yates was going for. Still finding fans to this day, this will provide devotees of the genre and its history with plenty of material for many years to come.
2. No Blonde Is an Island (1965)
It’s a game Hoyle never heard of. You play it stripped to your polka-dot shorts – if you’re a boy-type player, that is. The playground is an old French-style chateau on an island off the West Coast, complete with dungeon, trapdoor, and plenty of mantraps… like your playmate, for instance, a torrid blonde, 100% natural, 100% nude, and 100% up to no good…
In this frightening frolic through a tycoon’s island funhouse, LARRY BAKER, TV writer, finds plots, people, and perils that defy even his wild imagination…
Pretend you’re Larry Baker… high-spirited, high salaried writer of an important new television series.
What would you do if you were invited to spend a week on a private island with your sponsor, an eccentric millionaire with strongly negative feelings about wine, women, and song?
What would you do if the only women on the island were a glamorous blonde, a glamorous brunette, and a glamorous redhead?
What would you do if the glamorous redhead ran screaming into your room to tell you she saw a man looking in her window… and you knew her room was 20 feet above ground level?
What would you do if you saw your sponsor’s dead body… and then a little while later he came to your room to punch you in the nose for making passes at his wife?
What would you do if the wife – the glamorous blonde – happened to be sitting on your bed in a transparent night gown at the time?
What would you do if you were locked in the basement of a mysterious house with an unclad beauty and an escaped lunatic?
4. Had I But Groaned (1968)
It begins with two television writers on a barhopping bender and ends up with Larry Baker in a haunted house by a haunted lake with a cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs family. They are all a bit off kilter here, but perhaps that’s just part of the magic. A lot of the story is inane cocktail party chatter, but Brown knows what he’s doing because he keeps it interesting.
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