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The Contorted Figure : Poached Parody
A kidnapping case leads Kaiser Wrench into a fourteen-year-old mystery and the sights of the most diabolical killer the clawed private eye has ever faced.
114 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 20, 2020
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May 18, 2021
The ninth entry of P.C. Hatter’s Kaiser Wrench series of mysteries opens with the first-person tiger narrator analyzing a dead mutt under the scrutiny of a hostile Red River hog officer named Lohman, before he moves on to the mansion of the lapine Zelikow family, whose heir Norman is missing. The family offers Kaiser a reward for finding him, and the tiger has a fling with one of the manor’s servants, the vulpine Celia Clement, who had the stage name of Candy Weaver. Wrench goes to a bar to gather some information, but as has happened to him in many prior books, someone knocks him unconscious.
It appears at first as though Kaiser’s mission is complete, with none other than Norman Zelikow stirring the tiger awake, with another mystery in the form of the name Ackroyd. The body count gradually piles during the course of the novella, with Wrench getting the state police involved, and finding that a female albatross named Natalie Shore owned the meat cleaver responsible for one of the murders, thus becoming a prime suspect. Kaiser also develops a friendship with the coyote officer Sergeant Collins, and searches old newspapers in his continued search for clues, with some surprise twists culminating towards the end of the story.
All in all, this was definitely one of the highlights in the Kaiser Wrench series, given its clear mystery to solve and surprising turns of events, not to mention the appeal to members of the furry fandom such as myself, although it does have some of the same issues as its predecessors such as the poor editing job with many prominent errors, mostly in punctuation, although I actually found it slightly easier this time around to keep track of the species of the various luminaries throughout the novella. The mature themes also definitely appealed to me, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this story to those that enjoyed its precursors.
It appears at first as though Kaiser’s mission is complete, with none other than Norman Zelikow stirring the tiger awake, with another mystery in the form of the name Ackroyd. The body count gradually piles during the course of the novella, with Wrench getting the state police involved, and finding that a female albatross named Natalie Shore owned the meat cleaver responsible for one of the murders, thus becoming a prime suspect. Kaiser also develops a friendship with the coyote officer Sergeant Collins, and searches old newspapers in his continued search for clues, with some surprise twists culminating towards the end of the story.
All in all, this was definitely one of the highlights in the Kaiser Wrench series, given its clear mystery to solve and surprising turns of events, not to mention the appeal to members of the furry fandom such as myself, although it does have some of the same issues as its predecessors such as the poor editing job with many prominent errors, mostly in punctuation, although I actually found it slightly easier this time around to keep track of the species of the various luminaries throughout the novella. The mature themes also definitely appealed to me, and I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend this story to those that enjoyed its precursors.
March 14, 2022
This was one of the most intricate storyline that I have read in this series. I personally did not have any clue who the killer was and why they did what they did. The end I was left totally gobsmacked when everything finally came out and I loved it. Kaiser who never trust anyone was even fooled. This is one of my favorites so far I was totally fooled P.C Hatter you got me good. The storyline is so well written with my favorite characters and even a few newbies. I highly recommend this book because this murder mystery is so much more than you can imagine. This is my honest unbiased review.
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