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Who Killed The Fonz? (2019)

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:*The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days* gets reinvented as a gritty, "shamelessly entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir.** Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday. First, there's the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown is no longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft Marshmallow men. Then later that same day Richard gets a phone call with even worse news: His best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. He lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket, and Richard suspects murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber, he sets out to catch the killer. "Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days" (Publishers Weekly). Who Killed the Fonz? imagines what happened to the characters of the legendary TV show Happy Days twenty years after the series left off. And while much has changed in the interim�??goodbye drive-in movie theaters, hello VCRs�??the story centers around the same timeless themes as the show: The meaning of family. The significance of friendship. The importance of community. "Wildly inventive and entertaining" (Booklist), Who Killed the Fonz? is an "irresistible" (New York Newsday) twist on a beloved classic that proves sometimes you can go home again. TM & © 2018 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights R… (mere)

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The year is 1984, and Richard "Richie" Cunningham gets bad news from his hometown in Milwaukee. Arthur Fonzarelli, his best friend when he was growing up, the Fonz is dead. Fonzie was driving his motorcycle when he crossed a bridge and lost control and into the guardrail. He went over the handlebar into the water, but no body has been found. Crushed Richard gets back home to the memorial service for Fonzie. In Milwaukee, the memories of his youth come back, but he also realizes the death of the Fonz may be something other than accidental. It may have been murder.

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MaraBlaise | Jul 23, 2022 |

The writing is good and the plot is interesting, even though it is very predictable. It seems the purpose of the plot was to provide as many opportunities to relive scenes from "Happy Days" as possible. I don't see how anyone under the age of 60 or who hasn't watched 80% of the shows would find this at all interesting. (

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grandpahobo | Jan 31, 2022 |

1980s. Life has not been kind to the old gang after the 60s. Fonzie has been murdered at the old town is not the same. (

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bgknighton | May 23, 2020 |

It sounded like an interesting idea--find out what's happened to the Happy Days gang since the show. But the narrative is distant--and despite once caring for these TV characters, I couldn't care for them now.

Richard (no longer Richie) Cunningham lives in California--still married to Lori Beth--with 2 kids, the youngest of whom is in college--and his mother lives in an in-law suite. (His father is dead.) Just as Richard's discovering his career is on the skids, word comes that Fonzie has died. Richard is the only one to travel back to Milwaukee for the funeral. He's estranged from his once-friends Potsie and Ralph now. Other things are the same. Al's is still there though suffering since a Bennigan's moved in across the street. Kirk is still a police officer and still hassling the residents. (Joanie and Chachi now live in the Cunningham's old home.)

And instead of the accident Fonzie's death was thought to be, it turns out to be murder. (

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JenniferRobb | Apr 7, 2019 |

I watched my share of Happy Days after school, followed by Laverne and Shirley--who confusingly had my grandmother's couch in their apartment. I never would have imagined I needed any sort of update or closure with the Happy Days gang, but it turn out this was a very fun, nostalgic read that only took me one day to read. It's the early 80's. After a screen writing Oscar about a decade ago, Richard Cunningham hasn't found a lot of success in Los Angeles. When his mother relays a message from his sister Joanie, that their old friend Fonzie went head over handlebars into Lake MIchigan, he wonders if he can go home again. Heading back home, to the house Joanie has redecorated, Richard reconnects with old friends he wished he'd kept in touch with, hears a bit about Wisconsin politics and kind of solves a murder. From the table of contents that had me humming a certain theme song, right to the end, I was thoroughly entertained. (

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Who Killed The Fonz?

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Arthur "The Fonz" "Fonzie" Fonzarelli

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Fiction. Literature. Mystery. Thriller. HTML:The legendary 1950s-era TV show Happy Days gets reinvented as a gritty, "shamelessly entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews) 1980s noir.
Late October, 1984. Prince and Bruce are dominating FM radio. Ron and Nancy are headed back to the White House. And Richard Cunningham? Well, Richard Cunningham is having a really bad Sunday.

First, there's the meeting with his agent. A decade ago, the forty-something Cunningham was one of Hollywood's hottest screenwriters. But now Tinseltown is no longer interested in his artsy, introspective scripts. They want Terminator cyborgs and exploding Stay Puft Marshmallow men. Then later that same day Richard gets a phone call with even worse news: His best friend from childhood back in Milwaukee is dead. Arthur Fonzarelli. The Fonz. He lost control of his motorcycle while crossing a bridge and plummeted into the water below. Two days of searching and still no body, no trace of his trademark leather jacket, and Richard suspects murder. With the help of his old pals Ralph Malph and Potsie Weber, he sets out to catch the killer.

"Readers yearning for simpler times will enjoy this trip down memory lane, which is as comforting as an episode of Happy Days" (Publishers Weekly). Who Killed the Fonz? imagines what happened to the characters of the legendary TV show Happy Days twenty years after the series left off. And while much has changed in the interim�??goodbye drive-in movie theaters, hello VCRs�??the story centers around the same timeless themes as the show: The meaning of family. The significance of friendship. The importance of community.

"Wildly inventive and entertaining" (Booklist), Who Killed the Fonz? is an "irresistible" (New York Newsday) twist on a beloved classic that proves sometimes you can go home again.

TM & © 2018 CBS Studios Inc. All Rights R

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