Move more than Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. There’s a fresh gumshoe named Brute Ballingham.

As well as secretary Moolada and nephew Pinky, this hard taking in private detective is sucked into the seedy 1940s NY crime underworld.

The Excruciating Hello is a five hour wild and bizarre post-modern pastiche of such hardboiled crime noir fiction as The Long Farewell, The Maltese Falcon, To Have and Have Not, The Red Wind flow, The High Screen, Problems is My Business, THE GIRL in the Lake, Farewell, My Lovely, THE BEST Sleep, and other noir classics originated by such writers as Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

Chapter A single: The Camp Kilmer CaseChapter Two: The Sizable SlumberChapter Three: The Burmese AlbatrossChapter 4: Pinky’s Pancake ProblemChapter Five: The Greasy TideChapter 6: TO TRULY HAVE A Lot and Not Have got A LotChapter Seven: Treble is My BusinessChapter 8: The Green WindChapter Nine: The Lady Up a CreekChapter 10: The Large WidowChapter Eleven: Adiós Me DamasChapter 12: That Monkey Has No Tail