Dial 'M' For Monkey (book)

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Dial M For Monkey

Author	Adam Maxwell
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre(s)	Short Story, Flash fiction
Publisher	Tonto Press
Publication date	2006
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	Approx. 130 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-9552183-2-2

Dial M For Monkey is a collection of 20 short stories and flash fiction by Adam Maxwell first published in 2006.

Maxwell's writing has been described in the press as a ‘Chandler-esque hard-boiled cocktail, stirred with equal parts humour, mystery, gut-wrenching realism, and trademark minimalism’^[1], ‘weird, wonderful, twisted and witty’^[2] and even ‘almost Fawlty Towers’^[3]. Some of these stories are of a traditional Short Story length but most are Flash fiction weighing in well under 1000-words.

The twenty stories collected some of Maxwell's previously published work across the print and electronic mediums whilst also including selection of stories written specifically for this collection. Notably 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun' - a flash fiction in which the main character tests this premise by placing a gun in the microwave - was originally featured in Dave Eggers' McSweeneys.