Musical Chairs

"It was Christmas Eve and all of the salamis in the window of the Carnegie Deli had been hung with care. …" It's the last week of December, a brooding time of year even for a hip, sardonic country music star turned amateur private detective. When an ex-Texas Jewboys guitarist comes to visit, Kinky's gloom turns to horror: his "housepest" is found savagely murdered in the shower. And then deadly accidents start befalling the other members of the guerilla country-music band…someone is killing the …