Works by
Daniel Klein
(aka Daniel M. Klein)
(Writer)

Fiction

• Embryo (1980)
  Horror

• Wavelengths (1982)

• Magic Time (1984)
  Life and times of Timothy Leary and five of his young Harvard cohorts during the early days of their psychedelic research.

• Beauty Sleep (1990)

Singing Sleuth Elvis Presley Mystery Series

1. Kill Me Tender (2000)
   Back from his tour of duty in Germany-and desperately missing his Momma-Elvis Aron Presley just isn't turned on by the music any more, not the way he used to be. Between dealing with his Machiavellian manager, the hangers-on and childhood pals crowding Graceland, and his own propensity for gobbling down fried peanut butter, the King tries desperately to get his heart back into rock and roll. But how can the King sing when young girls-the presidents of his fan clubs-are dying all over Tennessee? Elvis suspects foul play. To prove it, and to find the killer, he'll need to navigate the resentment, sqareness, and bigotry that hound-dog him at every turn. Only by allying himself with a self-taught doctor in a small black community, his alluring-and forbidden-nurse, and a mysterious early Elvis impersonator, can Presely hope to Take Care of Business in time to save the next victim.

2. Blue Suede Clues (2002)
   The King Hits Hollywood!Just finished with the shooting of Kissin' Cousins-and fresh from a headline-making affair with the sizzling Ann-Margret-Elvis Aron Presley is at one devilish crossroads. Should he choose glittering Hollywood, or the temptations of Graceland? Keep making lucrative bad movies, or go back to doing the music he loves? His search for the truly good script that can mean the best of both worlds only creates more chaos between his ruthlessly scheming manager and the industry powerbrokers who won't take him seriously. Elvis is convinced that he's forever trapped in one hell-bound bargain. . .But when a fellow ex-soldier swears he's been wrongly convicted of killing a beautiful starlet, Elvis finds far worse trouble. To uncover the truth, he'll have to search the dark corners beyond Hollywood's bright-hot lights and confront the savage triple-dealing and lethal performances at the real heart of movieland. And only with the help of a discredited defense lawyer, a brilliant Mexican pathologist far ahead of his time, and a skeptical L.A. Times reporter, will Elvis have a prayer of finding the real killer and saving an innocent man's life.

3. Viva Las Vengeance (2003)
   Elvis is in Las Vegas for RR when a tourist is murdered. The victim had been the target of insulting jokes by the come--dian Howie Pickles, and the rumor spreads that Pickles's gags are deadly. A day later, a second tourist is murdered and con-spiracy theories multiply: Is it a hotel and casino war? Feud-ing wedding chapels? A showdown between brothels? As Elvis is drawn into the case, he finds himself falling in love with a beautiful dancer who lives on a commune for show biz drop-outs. The story climaxes at a 'peace concert' that Elvis gives to bring together all the warring factions. But with that concert comes some painful-and deadly-revelations.

4. Such Vicious Minds (2004)
   It's Memphis,1965. An increasingly withdrawn Elvis passes his evenings at the Memphian movie house, endlessly watch-ing Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove.' His friends and hangers-on are starting to worry, and so is his famously hucksterish manager, Colonel Tom Parker. Things only get worse when the King finds out that some-one has been disguising himself as Elvis in order to seduce his teenage fans, and that Colonel Tom's been paying off their parents to keep the scandal out of the press. When a photographer who claims to have documented these seductions is murdered....and Colonel Tom is arrested for that murder....the stakes become life and death.

Non-fiction

1. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Marijuana (1972)

2. Oakland A's Trivia (1989) by Daniel Klein and Paul Cunniffe

3. Family Tales, Family Wisdom: How to Gather the Stories of a Lifetime and Share Them With Your Family (1991) by Daniel M. Klein and Robert U. Akeret

4. Macho Meditations (1997) by Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart
   An uproariously funny daily inspirational guide for manly men. Ralph and Reggie--two regular, blue-collar buds from Boston--offer one-a-day mcnuggets of affirmation, inspiration, manly wisdom and earth-shaking epiphanies from the end of the bar on the inner issues that truly matter--everything from sex to sports to sex to imported vs. domestic to sex to the meaning of life. Radio giveaways.

5. Where's Elvis? Documented Sightings Prove That He Lives (1997) by Daniel Klein and Hans Teensma

6. The Happily Ever After Handbook: 52 Things You Can Do to Freshen Up Your Marriage (1999)

7. The Half-Jewish Book: A Celebration (2000) by Daniel M. Klein and Freke Klein
   It's happening fast: The population of half-Jews in America is well on its way to surpassing the population of full Jews. And with this population shift has come a revolutionary transformation of what it means to be half-Jewish. Sure, some people say that you are either Jewish or not, that there's nothing in between—but the authors emphatically disagree. They say half-Jews are a unique subculture of people who draw from both sides of their heritage and synthesize their cultural halves into a remarkable new identity.
           The Half-Jewish Book celebrates this unique identity that until now has been ignored, maligned, and misunderstood. There's half-Jewish humor. Half-Jewish/half-Catholic Bill Maher: "I come from a mixed religious background—when I went to confession, I brought a lawyer with me." And there's half-Jewish beauty—Gwyneth Paltrow, Joan Collins, and Jane Seymour, just for starters. There are half-Jewish writers (Proust, Salinger), and half-Jewish characters in fiction by authors ranging from Philip Roth to Salman Rushdie. There's even that half-Jewish cartoon phenomenon Tommy Pickles, in Rugrats. There are half-Jewish politicians—Fiorello La Guar-dia, Barry Goldwater, Dianne Feinstein. And there are the extraordinary number of people, like General Wesley Clark, who discovered as adults that they were half-Jewish and then embraced their newfound double heritage.
   
           This book includes an eye-opening essay on half-Jewish identity and looks into the often misunderstood history of half-Jews in the Holocaust. There are original interviews with half-Jews, aswell as holiday cards and menus, poetry and song lyrics, and paintings and photographs. Intelligent, exuberant, entertaining, and thought-provoking, The Half-Jewish Book is a fascinating celebration of a cultural mix that is far greater than the sum of its parts.

8. Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (2007) by Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart
   Here’s a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It’s Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas are Existentialism (what do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?), Philosophy of Language (how to express what it’s like being stranded on a desert island with Halle Berry), Feminist Philosophy (why, in the end, a man is always a man), and much more. Finally—it all makes sense!