Mucho Mojo

Mucho Mojo
The Cemetery Dance Publications edition
Author	Joe R. Lansdale
Cover artist	Mark A. Nelson
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Hap and Leonard
Publisher	Mysterious Press, Cemetery Dance, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Publication date	1 August 1994
Media type	Print (Hardcover, Trade paperback)
Pages	308
ISBN	0-89296-490-1
Preceded by	Savage Season (1990)
Followed by	The Two-Bear Mambo (1995)

Mucho Mojo Is a mystery/crime novel by American author Joe R. Lansdale. This is the second in Lansdale's Hap and Leonard series of crime novels.^[1]

Plot summary

This story revolves around the death of Leonard Pine's Uncle Chester who happens to live next to a crack house. Under the floorboards of his uncle's house the two discover the skeleton of an infant wrapped in child pornography. Leonard refuses to believe his uncle could be involved so he enlists the help of his best friend, Hap Collins, to solve the murder and clear his uncle.^[2]^[3]

Editions

This book was published as a limited edition by Cemetery Dance Publications and as a trade hardcover by Mysterious Press in 1994. Both are now out of print. A trade paperback was published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard on Jan. 6, 2009.

Vintage Crime/Black Lizard cover

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Awards

Mucho Mojo was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was awarded British Fantasy Award.^[5]

References

↑ http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/review.html?id=7936
↑ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/joe-r-lansdale/mucho-mojo/
↑ Publisher's Weekly, Review. "Mucho Mojo". Retrieved 24 September 2013.
↑ http://www.weeklylizard.com/?s=Joe+R.+Lansdale
↑ http://www.austinchronicle.com/books/1997-08-22/529456/

External links

Author's official Website
Paperback Publisher's website
Mucho Mojo title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Works by Joe R. Lansdale

Hap and Leonard series	Savage Season (1990) Mucho Mojo (1994) The Two-Bear Mambo (1995) Bad Chili (1997) Rumble Tumble (1998) Veil's Visit: a Taste of Hap and Leonard (1999) Captains Outrageous (2001) Vanilla Ride (2009) Devil Red (2011) Hyenas: a Hap and Leonard Novella (2011) Dead Aim (2013)

Novels	Act of Love (1981) Texas Night Riders (1983) Dead in the West (1986) The Magic Wagon (1986) The Nightrunners (1987) Cold in July (1989) Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995) The Boar (1998) Freezer Burn (1999) Waltz of Shadows (1999) The Big Blow (2000) Blood Dance (2000) The Bottoms (2000) A Fine Dark Line (2002) Sunset and Sawdust (2004) Lost Echoes (2007) Leather Maiden (2008) All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky (2011) Edge of Dark Water (2012) In Waders from Mars (2012) The Thicket (2013) Paradise Sky (2015) Fender Lizards (2015) Hell's Bounty (2016)

Novellas	On the Far Side of the Cadillac Desert with Dead Folks (1989) Bubba Ho-Tep (1994) Something Lumber This Way Comes (1999) Under the Warrior Star (2010) Christmas with the Dead (2010) A Bone Dead Sadness (2012) The Ape Man's Brother (2013) Hot in December (2013) Prisoner 489 (2014) Black Hat Jack (2014)

Short story collections	By Bizarre Hands (1989) Stories by Mama Lansdale's Youngest Boy (1991) Bestsellers Guaranteed (1993) Electric Gumbo: A Lansdale Reader (1994) Writer of the Purple Rage (1994) The Good, The Bad, and the Indifferent (1996) Private Eye Action, as You Like It (1998) The Long Ones (1999) Triple Feature (1999) High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale (2000) For a Few Stories More (2002) A Little Green Book of Monster Stories (2003) Bumper Crop (2004) Mad Dog Summer and Other Stories (2004) The King and Other Stories (2005) The God of the Razor (2007) The Shadows, Kith and Kin (2007) Sanctified and Chicken Fried (2009) Unchained and Unhinged (2009) The Best of Joe R. Lansdale (2010) Deadman's Road (2010) By Bizarre Hands Rides Again (2010) Trapped in the Saturday Matinee (2012) Bleeding Shadows (2013) A Pair of Aces (2014) The Tall Grass and Other Stories (2015)

Graphic novels	Crawling Sky (2013) Jonah Hex: Shadows West (2014)

Anthologies edited	Retro-Pulp Tales (2006) Son of Retro Pulp Tales (2009)

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