Nuclear Jellyfish by Tim Dorsey (2009, Paperback, Large Print)

Tim Dorsey's novel, "Nuclear Jellyfish," manages to include diamond couriers, jewel thieves, Lynard Skynyrd, the mutual disdain of rare coin and rare stamp dealers, psychiatry, skin heads, Toby Keith, the old Spanish fort at St. Augustine, Monday Night Football, job fairs, phony hotel coupons, a villain known as Eel, Mercury astronaut Deke Slayton, an RV repair scam, Marineland, Home Depot, a 1971 AMC Javelin, a stripper instructor, Dodgertown, the Allman Brothers, big sugar and John Travolta. Somehow it manages to hold together- hilariously- although it would be stretching to say it makes sense.

Serge Storms, the protagonist, is a lovable, obsessive-complusive, psychopath who devises fiendishly inventive ways of killing people who will not be missed, making weapons out of garden hoses, a vegetable peeler, bicycle inner tubes, model railroad tracks, cardboard boxes and plug-in air fresheners. He has a drug-addled sidekick named Coleman. The plot is launched when Serge sets off on his latest obsession- blogging about Florida for a travel Web site. But Serge turns bitter when the site is unenthusiastic about his gruesome accounts of tourists getting carjacked.

Dorsey's slapstick-noir novels- "Nuclear Jellyfish," and "Atomic Lobster"- are frowned upon by people who feel that robbery, promiscuity, drug addiction, torture and murder are not funny. But if you couldn't stop laughing when Bugs bunny shot Elmer Fudd in the face, this is the writer- and book- you've been looking for and won't be able to stop reading.