Ken Harmon: 2 books

Dead men tell no tales capeesh? Professor Bonaventure Ashburn is a tweedy poindexter, all pipes and patches on the elbows. Hiis alter ego, however, is “Pulp Ashburn,” a hard-boiled hatchet man for The English Major Mafia, a shadowy cartel dedicated to preserving literary standards and keeping...

A satire of traditional Christmas stories and noir. A hardboiled elf is framed for murder in a North Pole world that plays reindeer games for keeps, and where favorite holiday characters live complex lives beyond December. Fired from his longtime job as captain of the Coal Patrol, two-foot-three...