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A green hunting cap squeezed the top of a fleshy head, with earflaps and large ears sticking out like turn signals. Meet Ignatius J. Reilly, the tragicomic hero of this tale. At 30, he lives with his mother in New Orleans, writing his magnum opus on hidden Big Chief pads and recounting a traumatic Greyhound journey. His quiet life of tyrannizing his mother is disrupted when Patrolman Mancuso mistakes him for a vagrant, leading to a car accident with his tipsy mother. Suddenly, Ignatius finds himself searching for a job, stumbling through various misadventures. His brief stint as a hotdog vendor fails, and he upends the Levy Pants Company. Along the way, he encounters a cast of colorful characters, including stripper Darlene and her cockatoo, the thwarted retiree Miss Trixie, the flamboyant Dorian Greene, the sinister Miss Lee, and Myrna Minkoff, the woman he loves to hate. The intricate subplots rival those of Dickens, beautifully woven together by the end. Ignatius, selfish and deluded yet larger than life, is a modern-day Quixote facing contemporary giants. His comedic bluster conceals a deep melancholy, making him a poignant figure. John Kennedy Toole, who tragically took his own life in 1969, left behind Ignatius as a fitting tribute to his tormented genius.

Selling 2,000,000 copies in early editions, this is 2nd of the rediscovered Sherlock Holmes adventures "acquired" from a widow whose husband was descended from the distaff side of Holmes's family, this mystery finds Holmes solving a double murder in London's theater district. "Don't miss it."--Cosmopolitan. The West End Horror: A Posthumous Memoir of John H. Watson, MD is a Sherlock Holmes pastiche novel by Nicholas Meyer, published in '76. It takes place after his other two Holmes pastiches, The Seven-Percent Solution & The Canary Trainer, tho it was published twixt the two. The plot concerns a series of strange murders in London's Theater District at the end of the 19th Century. Contrary to what the press has sometimes asserted, The West End Horror has nothing to do with (tho it arguably bears subtle references to) Jack the Ripper or his crimes. Altho this novel doesn't feature a dramatic action climax like Meyer's other two pastiches, the mystery's dénouement may well affect many more people than those of his other adventures. It also includes a 1st meeting between the great detective & Dr Moore Agar, whose "dramatic introduction to Holmes" was one Watson, in the original Arthur Conan Doyle story "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot", wrote that he "may some day recount."