In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco's golden-boy poet laureate, is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight. Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet's death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem's coterie. Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective's clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged ...
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In 1977, Ickey Jerusalem, San Francisco's golden-boy poet laureate, is found dead in a locked, first-class toilet on an arriving red-eye flight. Ded Smith, a desperately unhappy, intelligent philistine with a highly developed philosophy to match, is called in to investigate the poet's death. Thus begins a series of hilarious encounters with the members of Jerusalem's coterie. Ded soon realizes that to find out what happened, he must not only collect his usual detective's clues but also, despite his own poetically challenged outlook, get into the dead poet's mind. Fighting his way through blasphemous funerals, drug-induced dreams, poetry-charged love-making, offbeat philosophical discussions, and much, much more, he begins to piece together Jerusalem's seductive, all-encompassing metaphysics. But by then, the attempts to kill Ded and the others have begun. Before Ded's death-dodging luck runs out, will he be able to solve the case, and perhaps in the process, develop a new way of looking at the world that might allow him to replace his unhappiness with joy?
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When poet Ickey Jerusalem is discovered dead in an airplane toilet, Ded Smith investigates.
Billed as a "rollicking literary murder mystery" with "side-splitting humor," WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was anything but. I found the humor to be entirely distasteful which really put a damper on things and made me not care about the characters or the murder mystery. The book is based on the work of William Blake and states at the beginning that the reader doesn't need to know about Blake or his work in order to enjoy the book. I'm not familiar with William Blake and can't help but wonder what impact it would have had if I was. I suspect it does actually make a difference although, overall, I don't think anything would've been enough to offset all the cringey parts that really ruined this book for me. The end felt like a huge info dump to make sense of the bizarre story and reveal the murderer. WHO KILLED JERUSALEM? was ultimately a disappointment for me.
Thank you to Galbraith Literary Publishers for the giveaway copy.
