Aside from careers in music and politics, Kinky was also a writer. He wrote cloumns for Texas Monthly, as well as novels.
Kinky Friedman Mysteries
Greenwich Killing Time (1986)
A Case Of Lone Star (1987)
When The Cat’s Away (1988)
Frequent Flyer (1989)
Musical Chairs (1991)
Elvis, Jesus and Coca-Cola (1993)
Armadillos and Old Lace (1994)
God Bless John Wayne (1995)
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover (1996)
Roadkill (1997)
Blast From The Past (1998)
Spanking Watson (1999)
The Mile High Club (2000)
Steppin’ On A Rainbow (2001)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (2002)
Curse of the Missing Puppet Head (2003)
The Prisoner of Vandam Street (2004)
Ten Little New Yorkers (2005)
Other novels
Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned (2003)
The Christmas Pig: A Fable ( 2006)
The musician went on a headlining world tour in 2011.
Kinky has released 18 albums, and his last one, Circus of Life, was released in 2018.
OTHER VENTURES
After Richard’s music career stalled in the 1980s, he turned to writing.
He mostly wrote detective novels, which feature a fictionalized version of himself and references to his song lyrics.
The character fights crime in New York City while telling jokes, dispensing wisdom, recipes, and charm.
He views himself as a latter-day Sherlock Holmes.
Kinky wrote two novels that did not feature the Kinky Friedman character – Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned and The Christmas Pig .
From 2001 to 2005, he also wrote a regular column for Texas Monthly.
The column was suspended when he ran for Governor in 2006.
However, two years after that, the publication brought back his column on a bi-monthly basis.
Before running for Governor, Richard ran as Justice of the Peace in Kerrville, Texas, as a Republican , but lost, in 1986.
Kinky released 18 albums in his lifetime, with his last one in 2018 Getty After Richard’s music career stalled in the 1980s, he turned to writing detective novels and columns in Texas Monthly Getty Kinky’s music career allowed him to tour with Bob Dylan and also perform on Saturday Night Live Getty
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