If this sounds like Thomas Pynchon...

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Thanks for the Moses Wine info, David K and Dave M!


Just learned of three books about an "alternative detective" by another
writer to visit the PI genre "from outside". The locations in the first
novel are more like those of V., however - the Mid-Atlantic, Paris, the
Mediterranean.

"From Publishers Weekly
In his first mystery in decades, SF author Sheckley (The Game of X)
offers a zany romp featuring Hob Draconian, a not-so-ex-hippie and
proprietor of the Alternative Detective Agency in New Jersey. Hob has an
amazing number of old bohemian pals, some of whom occasionally work for
him while the rest seem intent on killing him for various indignities
suffered during hazy drug-running days. ..."

"From Kirkus Reviews
Hobart Draconian runs the Alternative Detective Agency out of Snuff's
Landing, New Jersey, where he lives with his latest wife Mylar and her
unfulfilled lover Sheldon, the IRS agent who's auditing Hob's books. If
this sounds like Thomas Pynchon, wait till you hear about the case. ..."

http://tinyurl.com/ksj3h6


I like Robert Sheckley's SF stuff a lot although I haven't read anything
by him for ages. Anyone familiar with these Hob Draconian books?



Heikki