The Billiard Table Murders

by Glen Baxter

Hardcover. First edition. Dust jacket is slightly scuffed, with minor edge-wear and a few small surface scratches and indentations. Jacket spine ends and leading corners are a little worn and bumped, and front and upper rear leading corners of jacket are nicked. Hardcover spine is slightly cocked, and hardcover spine ends are bumped. One or two small dents to lower edge of rear board. Page block is rather sunned, with two or three grubby marks. Binding is sound and pages are tight throughout. Text and illustrations are clear. AF

Genres: Mystery, Humor, Fiction, Graphic Novels

246 pages, Paperback

First published October 11, 1991

About the author

Glen Baxter (born 4 March 1944), nicknamed Colonel Baxter, is an English cartoonist, noted for his absurdist drawings and an overall effect often resembling literary nonsense.
Born in Leeds, Baxter was trained at the Leeds College of Art. His images and their corresponding captions employ art and language inspired by pulp fiction and adventure comics with intellectual jokes and references. His simple line-drawings often feature cowboys, gangsters, explorers and schoolchildren, who utter incongruous intellectual statements regarding art and philosophy.
Baxter's artwork has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and The Independent on Sunday.

Reviews

[Cat {Pemberley and Beyond}]

That was utterly surreal: if Monty Python had written an illustrated crime novel, this would have been it!

[Ellen]

Got this book for £1 at a car boot sale and it set off a new weird obsession. I literally have tattoos of images from this book. The plot is wild, the art is great and the book as a whole has a ton of charm.

[Amanda]

A quirky book full of understated English humour. Somehow it seems to go on too long though. We never grow close enough to the main character to empatise with her same same adventures.

[Tom]

god save us from whimsy

[Genna]

What was side splittingly hilarious in comic format (single picture, short caption) got kind of weird and boring when attempted as a novel.

[Alex Mesman]

Very funny but too long. Some of the drawings are classics (at least in our househoold)

[Catherine]

Whimsical. A bit too silly.

[Tim Robinson]

Six stars.