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A Tale of North Pole Noir
Dutton
November 2010
On Sale: October 28, 2010
288 pages
ISBN: 0525951954
EAN: 9780525951957
Hardcover
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Fantasy | Mystery
A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir, The Fat
Man makes the perfect gift for the literary-minded. A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world
that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite
holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol,
two-foot-three inch 1,300-year-old elf Gumdrop Coal is
angry. He's one of Santa's original elves, inspired by the
fat man's vision to bring joy to children on that one
special day each year. But somewhere along the way things
went sour for Gumdrop. Maybe it was delivering one too many
lumps of coal for the Naughty List. Maybe it's the
conspiracy against Christmas that he's starting to sense
down every chimney. Either way, North Pole disillusionment
is nothing new: Some elves brood with a bottle of nog,
trying to forget their own wish list. Some get better. Some
get bitter. Gumdrop Coal wants revenge. Justice is the only
thing he knows, and so he decides to give a serious wakeup
call to parents who can't keep their vile offspring from
landing on the Naughty List. But when one parent winds up
dead, his eye shot out with a Red Ryder Carbine-Action
Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model BB gun, Gumdrop Coal must learn
who framed him and why. Along the way he'll escape the
life-sucking plants of the Mistletoe Forrest, battle the
infamous Tannenbomb Giant, and survive a close encounter
with twelve very angry drummers and their violent friends.
The horrible truth lurking behind the gingerbread doors of
Kringle Town could spell the end of Christmas-and of the fat
man himself. Holly Jolly!
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