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Gerald Locklin -
the case of the missing blue volkswagen.

Jokes fly fast as bullets in the case of the missing blue volkswagon, a hilarious spoofing of hard-boiled detective fiction which is already a small press classic.

"I like Gerald Locklin. I like his stuff. He swings from the heels, pukes from the bathroom... he's open and he calls the shots".
Charles Bukowski

" Locklin is the only author I know who writes about everything. He is one of my favorite writers but I'll be damned if I know where he fits into the scheme of American literature."
Edward Field

The Broad

  She came into my office like a broad in one of those hard-boiled detective flicks. Lauren Bacall, maybe. Or Charlotte Rampling. All of them.
  I had no idea what color her hair was, let alone her eyes. I'm just not very observant. Even when I have nothing better to do than observe.
  That's one of the myths of private detectives, that we're all highly observant. I'm the best and about half the time I don't recognize my own hand when I'm blowing my nose. I know one dick who carries his license plate number written down in his wallet so he can find his car in the lot after work.
  There's not much point in wasting a lot of time noticing details. Murderers - they're all alike. Women - they're all alike. Victims - they're all alike. Women-murderers, women-victims...
  Yawn.

Gerald Locklin
the case of the missing blue volkswagen.
Wrecking Ball Press
ISBN 1-903110-01-7