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'''''Everybody's Favorite Duck''''' is a 1988 [[parody]] of classic [[detective fiction]] and sensational crime stories.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mfjAjibERF0C&q=Everybody%27s+Favorite+Duck+book&pg=PA1021|title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy|first1=John|last1=Clute|first2=John|last2=Grant|date=March 15, 1999|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=9780312198695|via=Google Books}}</ref> This short novel by cartoonist [[Gahan Wilson]] pits the detectives Enoch Bone and John Weston against the Professor, a British [[Napoleon]] of Crime; the Mandarin, a [[China|Chinese]] mastermind, and Spectrobert, a [[France|French]] rogue.

While few people read the Doctor [[Fu Manchu]] novels of [[Sax Rohmer]] at the beginning of the 21st century, his character has become iconic and is easily recognized in many of the traits of the Mandarin; while the Professor may be recognized as [[Professor Moriarty]], the Original Napoleon of Crime; and Spectrobert is clearly based on the sadistic, exhibitionist French arch-villain and master of disguise [[Fantomas]].

Bone and Weston are modeled on [[Sherlock Holmes]] and [[Dr. Watson]], [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s archetypal crime solving team, although they may have more in common with the motion picture Holmes and Watson of the 1940s than the turn-of-the-century British, Baker Street originals. They may also owe something Sax Rohmer's detectives and [[Rex Stout]]'s [[Nero Wolfe]] and [[Archie Goodwin (character)|Archie Goodwin]].

The plot has the three super-villains combining forces in a plot which baffles the police, the [[FBI]] and the [[CIA]] and even bemuses the two heroes.

The story comes to a head in a theme park, Waldo World (a clear spoof of [[Disneyland]], but set in [[New Jersey]]), featuring the popular duck of the title (a parody of [[Donald Duck]]), and its creator, Art Waldo ([[Walt Disney]]).

The story has a surprise twist at the end, worthy of the most twisted of the plotters whose villainy drives the plot until the final scenes of the novel.

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[[Category:1988 American novels]]
[[Category:American crime novels]]
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