The Corpse Wore Pasties

ISBN: 9780857683618
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Mass market paperback: 224pp
Publication date: 24 June 2011
All authors: Jonny Porkpie

Known to many as the burlesque mayor of New York City, Jonny Porkpie is the co-creator and host of New York’s celebrated Pinchbottom burlesque troupe as well as an accomplished cartoonist, puppeteer, and author. Mr. Porkpie is often credited as a key figure in the widely reported burlesque revival.

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Synopsis

WHO BUMPED OFF THE BUMP-AND-GRINDER?

Usually, when you call a burlesque act a “show stopper,” you don't mean it quite so literally. But this time, that's just what happened: The show stopped dead, and so did the girl. And as I looked at her nearly naked and completely lifeless body and the bottle of poison in her hand with my fingerprints all over it, I thought to myself: Porkpie, you're in for it this time…