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The Mile High Club is one of the Kinky Friedman mysteries from the late stretch of his long run, with Kinky (the country singer, the fictional detective, both at once) on a flight from New York to LA and the in-flight death of a passenger triggering the kind of comic investigation his series specializes in. The Village Irregulars eventually become involved. Almost nothing actually happens.
Friedman by this point in his run is writing in a particularly self-aware register. The plot is barely a plot. The book is mostly an excuse to spend time with his voice, his cat, and the running gags the series has been developing for fifteen years.
Three stars. Recommended only to Friedman regulars. New readers should start with Greenwich Killing Time or A Case of Lone Star, which have stronger plots and the same voice.
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