Who Censored Roger Rabbit?

By: Gary K. Wolf

Narrated by: L.J. Ganser

Private eye Eddie Valiant doesn't like Toons - those cartoon characters who live side-by-side with humans. Not the way they look, and especially not the way they talk: word-filled balloons come out of their mouths and then disintegrate, leaving dust all over his rug.

Eddie will work for a Toon if his cash supply is low enough. So he reluctantly agrees when Roger Rabbit, a Toon who plays straight man (or should that be straight rabbit) in the Baby Herman cartoon series, asks him to find out who's been trying - unsuccessfully - to buy his contract from the DeGreasy Brothers syndicate.

Then Rocco DeGreasy is murdered - and Roger is the prime suspect! The rabbit is also, as Eddie soon discovers, very, very dead. Who censored Roger Rabbit? And who shot Rocco DeGreasy? Was it Roger, or was it Rocco's hot-cha-cha girlfriend, Jessica Rabbit? Why had Jessica - a pretty steamy number for a Toon - ever married a dopey bunny in the first place? And why does everybody want Roger's battered old teakettle?

As Eddie combs L.A. from the executive suites of the DeGreasy Brothers to Sid Sleaze's porno comic studio, he uncovers art thefts, blackmail plots...and the cagiest killer he's ever faced.

©1981 Gary K. Wolf (P)2019 Tantor

Surprising

It was a lot of fun! Not at all like the movie, although you can see where they got the material. It was a fun mystery and felt like a classic private eye story.

NOT the movie

I really enjoyed this book. But it is not at all like the film. so if you are looking for a fun adaptation to the Disney movie don't read this book. but if you're looking for a noiresque mystery with an interesting twist this book's for you.

What a great ride this turned out to be.

I’ve seen the movie version of course, but somehow didn’t know it was an adaptation of a series of books. My bad.

This book is quite, quite different from the movie in nearly every way other than a few of the characters and some dialogue. Nonetheless it is fantastic as a stand-alone story.

The writing is snappy, noire detective fiction ad seen through the lens of a world where humans and toons are coexisting as separate species and have been from the beginning. Just go with it, you won’t regret it.

The narrator is fantastic in his ability to conjure up characters both human and toon and make them believable. The nod to Jimmy Stewart is not only brilliant but also somehow touching like a tribute to a fine actor and the characters he created.

Absolutely credit worthy!

a wonderfully imaginintive story

I been a fan of Roger Rabbit since I saw the movie as a kid. knowing the movie inside out backwards and forwards jts quite refreshing to see such a different take on the beloved Rabbit. this is a very well written mystery that keeps you guessing until the end allyhe while entertaining you with the antics of the Toons. if your a fan of the movie you owe it to yourself to read the orgins of the toon rabbit.

Not what you’ll expect

Amazing, but nothing like the movie. Come in expecting absolutely nothing, and you’ll really enjoy it. It’s a good noir mystery.