Maxx Hamm Fairy Tale Detective

Hard-boiled detective Max Hamm is awoken after midnight by a call from the police who, “called me to come down to King Cole’s Supper Club. My not so hard-boiled partner had an accident. When I got to the joint, there he was sunny-side up. All the King’s horses and all the King’s men couldn’t put Dumpty together again. For this one they were gonna need a spatula.”

This is LOL funny, a hilarious mix of Mother Goose, the Disney version of fairy tales, and classic hard-boiled detective fiction. It’s a comic stuffed full of puns, jokes, double entendre, and femmes fatale in the guise of storybook heroines. It’s as if Dashiell Hammett had rewritten Cinderella with the glass slipper substituting for the Maltese falcon and thrown show more Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs into the mix. show less