Lazlo Woodbine is a character in several of Robert Rankin's 'far fetched fiction' novels.

Laz is the undisputed master of the 50's era American dective genre. With him you always get what you pay for, when you pay for the best private eye in the buisness. He doesn't come cheap but with him you can expect a lot of gratuitous sex and violence, a corpse strewn alley and a final rooftop showdown. No loose endings, no spin-offs and all strictly in the first person.

Laz only works the four locations, his office, where his clients come to engage his services. A bar where he talks a load of old toot and the dame who does him wrong bops him on the head at the beginning of the case. An alleyway where he gets into sticky situations and a rooftop where he has his final confrontation with the villain.No master of the genre ever needed more