Ken Harmon

The Fat Man: A Tale of North Pole Noir

New York: Dutton, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. 275 pp. Fine (rem. stripe inner top edge) in fine dust jacket. Certainly a unique, imaginative take on the whole Santa Claus-North Pole thing--- a two-foot-three-inch, 1300 year old elf, Gumdrop Coal (one of Santa's riginal elves), is framed for murder. He's disillusioned with parents who can't keep their vile offspring off the Naughty List and he's angry. When one of them is plugged in the eye by a BB gun, Gumrrop is accused---and now he wants revenge. A remarkably difficult book to find in any edition. Fine / fine. Item #E27072
ISBN: 9780525951957

Price: $22.50