Who Killed Jerusalem?: A Rollicking Literary Murder Mystery Based on William Blake's Characters & Ideas Updated to 1970s San Francisco
A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor…
Specifikacia Who Killed Jerusalem?: A Rollicking Literary Murder Mystery Based on William Blake's Characters & Ideas Updated to 1970s San Francisco
A budding cult classic that dramatically splits the reviewers. Which side will you be on?A seamless melding of the intricate plotting of Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose; the side-splitting humor of John Kennedy Toole in A Confederacy of Dunces; and the fabulous world of William Blake. In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco's golden-boy poet laureate, is found dead in a locked first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight.Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet's death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem's coterie.Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective's clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the