MAN WHO DIED LAUGHING, THE

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Summary: Yippie Yi Yi Yo
Review: In the early 80s, Stewart Hoag ("Hoagy") was proclaimed to be "the first new literary voice of the 80s" by the New York Times. Now it's the late 80s, and Hoagy is reduced to ghost writing a biography for Sonny Day, nicknamed "The One," formerly of the Martin-Lewis-esque team Knight & Day. Get it?
OK, everybody sing:
o/~ Knight and Day, You are The One ... o/~
Like Martin & Lewis, Knight & Day had The Big BreakUp. The Why of it is at the center of the mystery. Hoagy's sidekick is his Basset Hound, Lulu. This reviewer's Basset, LucyIndaSky, wishes Lulu would have had a bigger role. This reviewer wishes this book would have moved along better. (o/~ "Get along. Little Doggies!" o/~)
No one dies until page 123 out of 184. This would not work for dear Jessica Fletcher, who manages to have a dead body by the 1st commercial in every Murder, She Wrote, and it doesn't work well here either.
The book meanders from Coast to Coast - New York to LA and back and forth. It is an exercise in Celebrity Name Dropping, including the real Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. Dino even comes to the funeral, when Handler finally gets around to giving us a funeral to go to.
Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer