Damn the Torn Speedos, Full Speed Ahead

by Elliott Capon

Overview

What happens when a guy accused of stealing a type of onion defends himself by saying, "I was only taking a leek"? Or at the insect Olympics, where certain bugs hold the stopwatches, because "flies time"? That's when you're in the world of the "shaggy dog," a type of story that ends on a funny, if horrible, pun that leaves the reader moaning and groaning...but laughing and eager to be abused by the next distortion of the English language. We have 101 such crimes against the mother tongue in this amusing collection.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157305321
Publisher:	Rogue Phoenix Press
Publication date:	03/26/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	791 KB

About the Author

Elliott Capon has three novels in print: the thoughtful horror story The Prince of Horror, and two funny whodunits that take place in the world of Poverty-Row Hollywood of the 1930s, The Corps Vanishes and Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch, the latter two published by Rogue Phoenix Press. He has had stories (and reprints!) in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Frostfire Worlds, Disturbed Digest, and the original-story anthologies Zippered Flesh and Uncommon Assassins. He lives with his current wife and as-yet undisowned son.