The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen

Strangely, this previously-posted review is missing. I've re-numbered, but it's now out of sequence.


#233
Title: The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen
Author: M. T. Anderson
Publisher: Harcourt
Year: 2007
243 pages

Okay, but not as good as Anderson's previous in the series, Whales on Stilts!, which struck a better balance between parody and earnest absurdity. The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen has its own good jokes and affectionate jabs at genre fiction aimed at children, but doesn't pull it off as well. The authorial narrator is more talkative here, which is one of the up sides of this volume.