The idea of a humorous thriller is to some extent a contradiction in terms, and there are few successful examples of the integration of comedy with suspense. Books such as Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man (1934) and Richard Powell's Lay That Pistol Down (1945) utilized highly stylized upper-class settings as a means of distancing the impact of violence upon their somewhat fey heroes, but this cannot be done for the sort of average-guy protagonist Westlake presents in novels such as God.....
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