Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny

<b>Famous radio private eye Guy Noir leaps from <i>A Prairie Home Companion</i> to the page</b><p>On the 12th floor of the Acme Building on a cold February day in St. Paul Guy Noir looks down the barrel of a loaded revolver in the hands of geezer gangster Joey Roast Beef who is demanding to hear what lucrative scheme Guy is cooking up with stripper-turned-women's-studies-professor Naomi Fallopian. Everyone wants to know-Joey Lieutenant McCafferty reporter Gene Williker Guy's ex-girlfriend Sugar O'Toole the despicable Larry B. Larry the dreamboat Scarlett Anderson Mr. Kress of the FDA-and Guy faces them one by one as he and Naomi pursue a dream of earning gazillions by selling a surefire method of dramatic weight loss. In this whirlwind caper Guy faces danger falls in love and faces off with the capo del capo del grande primo capo Johnny Banana.</p>