A Night Without Sunshine

by Jason Edwards

Rich "Dick" Hardin is a private-eye and a cucumber in this hard-boiled detective novel. ( a cucumber, a Marketmore 76, a Cucumis sativust.) In a city that is just as broken down and old as he is, Dick has to find the will and the desire to find who killed the onion, who stole his table, and most baffling of why.With a cast of characters running from banana to broccoli, cabbage to carrot, this vegetable treatment of the pulp noir genre is as humorous as it is gritty.

228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 19, 2012

Reviews

[Garrett]

You know when there's a book you read about that you think 'now way can he/she pull that off, it's just too silly of a device?' All those animal books, Charlotte's Web, Animal Farm, Watership Down, Mrs Brisby & the Rats of Nimh, etc, and they prove all the more memorable or impacting because it?

I'd all to that humor. This first novel by talented Jason Edwards is about as creative and hilarious as they come, all written in classic noir style obviously borne from Hammiet & Chandler, and to a lesser extent Spillane.

I've you've just come off of reading Faulkner's Sanctuary (nothing against that book--it's amazing) and would like to have a literary shower, do pick A Night Withought Sunshine up. On your Kindle.

The funniest thing I've read since In My Time by Dick Cheeny. And that's a pretty high bar.