"Ten Dead Comedians" by Fred Van Lente

[Alice]

I'm in the process of reading the paperback version of this book. I picked it up at my local book store one day after reading the synopsis. Has anyone here read this novel? What are your thoughts on it if you have?

As the story opens, nine comedians of various acclaim are summoned to the island retreat of legendary Hollywood funnyman Dustin Walker. The group includes a former late-night TV host, a washed-up improv instructor, a ridiculously wealthy “blue collar” comic, and a past-her-prime Vegas icon. All nine arrive via boat to find that every building on the island is completely deserted. Marooned without cell phone service or wifi signals, they soon find themselves being murdered one by one. But who is doing the killing, and why?

A darkly clever take on Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None and other classics of the genre, Ten Dead Comedians is a marvel of literary ventriloquism, with hilarious comic monologues in the voice of every suspect. It’s also an ingeniously plotted puzzler with a twist you’ll never see coming!

[endo]

That sounds pretty good, gonna tell my wife about this one. Sounds like something she'd like. Thanks.

[NDX]

That name sounds familiar. I think Van Lente has written a few comics before.

[endo]

Right you are NDX...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Van_Lente

[Alice]

I knew he did some comics but I didn't realize he did that much stuff until I looked at the link @endo provided.

Also, I hope your wife likes this novel endo.

[NDX]

Ahh, yes. iHerc and Archer & Armstrong. Some of the best comedy action comics of the last decade. I think I have all of iHerc in trades/HCs, too. Great books there, and I was never a Hercules fan.

[Smeets]

looks to me like they are trapped in their house without any one to hear their jokes.

[Alice]

Nov 4, 2018 15:12:19 GMT -5 Smeets said:

looks to me like they are trapped in their house without any one to hear their jokes.

You get to hear all the jokes that they make to one another.

[Smeets]

You get to hear all the jokes that they make to one another.

I don't get it... I do personally? How? Where? When?

[Smeets]

I know a house that looks like that in my town! Maybe there?

[Alice]

Being that they're all comedians, they're constantly making jokes to one another throughout the book. You, the reader, get to hear the jokes (you're actually reading them). That's all I meant.

[Smeets]

got ya.