Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
The legendary Lone Star Café. A raucous little corner of Texas right in the heart of Manhattan, where every great country music star stops for a gig. At one time or another, everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Blues Brothers has jammed there.

But this night, Thanksgiving, is a different kind of jam. Larry Barkins of the headlining Barkin Brothers is found dead in his dressing-room, his head bashed in with his own guitar and a two-dollar bill stuffed in his shirt pocket. It's Kinky they call for help, but the fast-talking, cigar-smoking, cat-loving sleuth is disinclined to ruffle his tranquility.

Then the manager of the Lone Star arrives at 199B Vandam with a strange piece of mail addressed to Barkin - the lyrics to 'Hey, Good Lookin' - and Kinky is intrigued. As other Lone Star performers are murdered by a killer who leaves clues from the songs of Hank Williams, Kinky finds it impossible to stay out of the spotlight.

Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star. Faber and Faber, ISBN: 0571194125 (February, 1998), 166 p., £5.99.

Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
New York's wildest country-western singer turned sleuth is back with another wacky, wisecracking mystery. It's a true grit romp into the seamy side of Manhattan's chic night spots where Kinky's offbeat humor sounds a blue note of truth about singers, songsters and ourselves.

The scene of the crime is the famous Lone Star Cafe where sequined singers start dying with their hand-tooled boots on and the lyrics to a Hank Williams song in their hands. Now it's up to country-boy Kinky to grab his guitar and go stage center to catch a killer.

Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425111857 (October, 1988), 166 p., $3.50.

Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
The legendary Lone Star Cafe. A raucous little corner of Texas right in the heart of Manhattan, where every great country music star stops for a gig. At one time or another, everyone from the Rolling Stones to the Blues Brothers has jammed there.

But this night, Thanksgiving, is a different kind of jam. Larry Barkin of the head-lining Barkin Brothers is found dead in his dressing room, his head bashed in with his own guitar and a two-dollar bill stuffed in his shirt pocket. And it's Kinky they call for help.

But Kinky -- the fast-talking, cigar-smoking, cat-loving, reluctant hero-detective of Greenwich Killing Time -- is disinclined to ruffle his tranquillity.

Then the manager of the Lone Star arrives at 199B Vandam with a strange piece of mail addressed to Barkin - the lyrics to "Hey, Good Lookin" - and Kinky is intrigued. If the missive isfrom the killer, they share an interest in Hank Williams.

When other Lone Star performers get murdered, Kinky finds it impossible to stay out of the spotlight.

Kinky Friedman recorded five albums of country music with Kinky Friedman and the Texas Jewboys. He recently completed the score for the upcoming Broadway musical comedy God’s Other Son, with a book by Don Imus. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and served two years in the Peace Corps in the jungles of Borneo. He is the author of Greenwich Killing Time. Kinky Friedman has three cats and lives both in New York City and on a ranch in the Texas hill country.

Kinky Friedman: A Case of Lone Star. A Novel. William Morrow / Beech Tree Books, ISBN: 0688064108 (July, 1987), 189 p., $14.95.