Dreaming of Babylon

A Private Eye Novel 1942

Richard Brautigan

• Publisher: Canongate Canons
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9781786890443
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786890450
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

When you hire C.Card, you have scraped the bottom of the private eye barrel. And when Card is hired to steal a body from the morgue, he needs to stop dreaming, find bullets for his gun and get there before someone else does.

Not since Trout Fishing in America has Brautigan so successfully combined his wild sense of humour with his famous poetic imagination. In this parody of the hard-boiled crime novel, the adventures of seedy, not-too-bright C.Card are a delight to both the mind and the heart.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Good News, Bad News
• Babylon
• Oklahoma
• Cactus Fog
• My Girlfriend
• Sergeant Rink
• The Hall of Justice
• Adolf Hitler
• Mustard
• Bela Lugosi
• 1934
• The Blonde
• “Eye”
• ·38
• The Morning Mail
• The Boss
• The Front Door to Babylon
• President Roosevelt
• A Babylonian Sand Watch
• Nebuchadnezzar
• The 596 B.C. Baseball Season
• First Base Hotel
• A Cowboy in Babylon
• Terry and the Pirates
• Ming the Merciless
• The Magician
• Barcelona
• The Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Loving Uncle Sam
• Bus Throne
• Drums of Fu Manchu
• Friday’s Grave
• Smith
• Lobotomy
• The Milkmen
• My Day
• Christmas Carols
• A World Renowned Expert on Socks
• Good-bye, Oil Wells in Rhode Island
• Pretty Pictures
• Pedro and His Five Romantics
• Smith Smith
• Roast Turkey and Dressing
• Cinderella of the Airways
• Smith Smith Versus the Shadow Robots
• The Morning Paper
• Beer Tastes on a Champagne Budget
• Earthquake in an Anvil Factory
• The Private Detectives of San Francisco
• Future Practice
• C. Card, Private Investigator
• Chapter 1/Smith Smith Versus the Shadow Robots
• Quickdraw Artist
• Ghouls
• Cold Heartless Cash
• Time Heals All Wounds
• The Jack Benny Show
• A Strange Cup of Sugar from Oakland
• Warner Brothers
• The Babylon-Orion Express
• Partners in Mayhem
• Today Is My Lucky Day
• The Sahara Desert
• The Edgar Allan Poe Hotfoot
• The Labrador Retriever of Dead People
• Dancing Time
• The Blindman
• BABY
• Stew Meat
• The Lone Eagle
• A Funny Building
• The Five-hundred-dollar Foot
• The Night Is Always Darker
• Smiley’s Genuine Louisiana Barbecue
• Into the Cemetery We Will Go
• The Surprise
• Good-bye, $10,000
• It’s Midnight. It’s Dark.
• Good Luck