RUBBER DUCK

by Jack Douglas ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 17, 1979

Jack and Reiko again, this time in a fictional, necrological, laff-marathon caper featuring two corpses in two freezers. Corpse One is that of their baby nurse, Mrs. Ogelvie, whom the Douglases have been jokingly talking about killing for some time: they've joshed all around town (and with their psychiatrists) about how the nurse has taken over their baby completely, about how to do away with this nanny monster. Then--whoops!--Mrs. Ogelvie dies of a fatal heart seizure! No one in town is going to believe anything but the worst. How to dispose of the body? Initial plans (a circus cannon stuffed with Mrs. O. and shot into the swamp) are discarded. Then somehow Jack and Reiko wind up with two freezers--one stocked with Mrs. O., the other full of a recently rubbed-out gangland hood (with an erection for easy handling). Jack attempts to drive everything off a bridge; he stages a seance with an icy and muumuu-ed Mrs. O.; and there are umpteen weldings and unweldings of the freezer. Finally the body--and the baby--disappear. But 17 years later. . . With his usual gagster's overkill, Douglas travels from Kollege Humor (""Andy Hardy Takes a Warm Bath and Finds Himself"") to elderly clinkers (""the bar. . . a door prize at a Dean Martin Hunt Breakfast""). Frat house sex-bolls, funny dead people, and rat-a-tat delivery--duck this one if you're not one of the Jack & Reiko Fan Club.

Pub Date: July 17, 1979

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Putnam

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1979

Categories: FICTION