All this is the stuff of beach-blanket fiction, and it is puzzling that so few really amusing novels about opera singers have been written.

An amusing novel with an amusing proposition: its title character, a psychic loose cannon who can't control what he sees, suffers from the resulting mystery deficit in his love life.

If one wants insight into the rise and promotion of a worthless tonic, he should read H. G. Wells' amusing novel, Tono-Bungay.

But Ann M. Martin and Laura Godwin have given their amusing novel a decidedly contemporary twist: 19th-century porcelain meets 20th-century plastic.

Feeling a bit of intellectual restlessness after a few years in the host's chair, though, Mr. Soares came up with an idea for what he thought might make an amusing novel.

Josh Greenfeld's amusing new novel, "What Happened Was This," has a fuse so long that when it explodes it catches you by surprise.

Marie Brown, the heroine of this engaging, amusing first novel, is an aspiring tabloid writer and quondam graduate student in philosophy of science.

A New York newspaperman looks into the murder of a friend's son in this "very amusing" novel.

So says the cynical blue-collar narrator of Thomas William Simpson's darkly amusing fourth novel.

A deft, amusing first novel, full of entertaining mysteries, about an adopted daughter awkwardly reunited with her birth mother.