The ultimate hardboiled parody is S.J. Perelman's short
story, "Farewell My Lovely Appetizer." Woody Allen has
published a couple short stories, too. "Mr. Big" is one I
recall. Someone mentioned Lee Goldberg's two books, which are
pretty funny. There're the Chance Purdue books by Ross
Spencer that I never quite cared for. Ditto, the Kinky
Friedman series.
I'm not sure that they're parodies exactly -- satire would be
more like it: Gary Wolfe's "Who Censored Roger Rabbitt?"
(source of the Disney movie of a slightly different name) and
a sequel, "Who Ordered Delancy Duck?", Jules Feiffer's
"Ackroyd" (an odd, not very funny private eye take on
Christie's "Murder of Roger Ackroyd," a weird but definitely
worth looking for novel by Stanley Crawford, "Gascoygne,"
about a private eye who lives in his car, Leo Rosten's
"Silky," about a couple of private eyes whose agency is
called Watson and Holmes, Thomas Berger's "Who Is Teddy
Villanova?" and Richard Brautigan's largely disappointing
"Dreaming of Babylon."
Dick Lochte
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