MR Obvious: MR Obvious

By James Lileks

A tantalizing recipe for a spicy mystery from the author of Falling Up The Stairs. James Lileks offers a new tale of a gourmet food critic's taste for crime that lands him in a simmering stew of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671737058
• ISBN13: 9780671737054
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Comedy and Mystery with a twist of Lileks

James Lileks has done it again with another excellent novel. Much like its predecessor, "Falling Up the Stairs," this novel is full of suspense and nonsense in order to keep the reader both interested and smiling. The only drawback to this particular book is the anti-climax. The unfortunately abrupt and off-plot ending made this book a 4 star rather than a 5. Still, it is worth a good read and can easily be enjoyed.

Second funniest book I've read in 10 years!

Second installment of on-target witticism by the author of Falling Up The Stairs. Picks up with our unwilling hero, again caught in a web of unlikely (but plausible) circumstance. This time, ingredients include a beautiful bald woman, one irate failing radio persona, and a loaded pistol caught in the elastic cuff of hospital pants (how DO you aim your leg away from yourself..?) Both books are highly prizes personal posessions. Mail me if you like them!