Kinky Friedman Bibliography

Kinky Friedman

(1944 - )

About the Author: After his music career stalled in the 1980s, Friedman found a new lease on life as a detective novelist. His books have similarities to his music, featuring a fictionalized version of himself solving crimes in New York City and dispensing jokes, wisdom, Texan charm and Jameson's whiskey in equal measure. They are written in a straightforward style which owes a debt to Raymond Chandler. To date, he has written only one novel that did not star the Kinky Friedman character, Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned.

The recurring character "Rambam", a New York private investigator and friend of the Friedman character in the books, is based on the real-life investigator, Steven Rombom, who acts as a technical advisor for the real Friedman.

Series

Novels

Kinky Friedman
1. A Greenwich Killing Time (1986)
2. A Case of Lone Star (1987)
3. When The Cat's Away (1988)
4. Frequent Flyer (1989)
5. Musical Chairs (1991)
6. Elvis, Jesus and Coca Cola (1993)
7. Armadillos and Old Lace (1994)
8. God Bless John Wayne (1995)
9. The Love Song Of J. Edgar Hoover (1996)
10. Road Kill (1997)
11. Blast From The Past (1998)
12. Spanking Watson (1999)
13. The Mile High Club (2000)
14. Steppin' On a Rainbow (2001)
15. Meanwhile Back at the Ranch (2002)
16. Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned (2003)
17. The Prisoner of Vandam Street (2004)
18. The Christmas Pig: A Very Kinky Christmas (2006)

Novels
Ten Little New Yorkers (2005)

Non fiction
Kinky Friedman's Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth (2001)
Texas Hold 'em: How I Was Born in a Manger, Died in the Saddle, and Came Back as a Horny Toad (2006)
Cowboy Logic: The Wit and Wisdom of Kinky Friedman (and Some of His Friends) (2007)
'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out (2007)
You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can't Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics (2007)
What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World (2008)
Heroes of a Texas Childhood (2009)
Kinky's Celebrity Pet Files (2009)