Funny Boys
A Novel
by Warren Adler
A comedian in the Catskills circa 1937 interacts with the gangsters from Murder
Inc.
The author takes on the New York of his childhood in this darkly funny comedy
of errors about success, the mob, and finding true love. Mikey Fine is a young man with a promising future in comedy. Attracted to the
crowd applause at a lavish hotel casino in the Catskills, he gets a job as a
tumler—part entertainer, part host, all funny boy. But he is naive to the more
sinister side of his audience, made up of mobsters and other power players of
New York's underbelly.
When Mutzie Feder, a Jean Harlow-esque gangster girlfriend with dreams of
escaping her brutal reality, gets into the act with Mickey, the sparks begin to
fly. But as their circumstances start catching up with them and the body counts
start mounting, Mickey and Mutzie start angling for a way out. That, of course,
isn't as easy as it sounds.
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