Curing the Blues with a New Pair of Shoes

by Dixie Cash

Book Overview

No holiday in tiny Salt Lick, Texas, is more revered than January 8th -- Elvis's birthday! To commemorate the grand occasion, Hogg's Drive-In-where the King enjoyed many a burger on the road to fame... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061434388
• ISBN13: 9780061434389
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

*****

I love Dixie Cash! I have enjoyed these books very very much. I will be sure to purchase anything these ladies produce. Texas humor at its best.

If it's a Dixie Cash book, you're in for a fun read

Once again, the gals from Salt Lick, Texas are on an adventure -- this time to find Elvis' missing blue suede shoes. Since it was a loan from a hotshot in Vegas, it's urgent that the purloined shoes are found. What I really like is that at the back of each of the Dixie Cash books, the authors insert recipes that are from the west Texas area; an advice column that is hysterical and other little tidbits. My only problem with a Dixie Cash book is that I end up talking with a west Texan accent for a day or so after reading the books. It leaves my husband a bit befuddled...but my daughters understand why.

amusing gumshoe cozy

Salt Lick, Texas is proud to host an Elvis gala as the singer remains popular though he died four decades ago. This year the townsfolk are especially excited because the legendary blue suede shoes that their hero wore when he sang the tune is going to be on exhibit. However, the valuable relic vanishes to the shock of the locals. Nobody steps on their Elvis and gets away with it so the Domestic Equalizers (when they are not styling hair), Debbie Sue Overstreet and Edwina Perkins-Martin investigate seeking who is wearing blue suede shoes. Not long afterward, the pair replaces the missing artifact with ancient slippers belonging to Ed's husband, who they assume will believe he misplaced them. They try to contact Adolf Sielvami, Keeper for the King Museum in Las Vegas, who sent the shoes, but he and his shrine apparently do not exist. With another gumshoe cozy (see DON'T MAKE ME CHOOSE BETWEEN ME AND MY SHOES) in between matchmaking of reporters and preparing for the Elvis horde invasion, Debbie Sue and Edwinna have plenty to do while Ed searches for his missing slippers. Lighthearted fun, Dixie cash pays homage to Elvis while gently mocking fanatics who sight the "King" in every fast food joint in the country and treat anything he touched as a precious artifact. With a nod to Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, fans will laugh out loud at the latest escapades of the Texas cowgirls. Harriet Klausner