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TOURIST SEASON: Nobody took any notice of the first victim. He was from out of town, probably took a dip when he was drunk. The second victim DID make waves. The head of the city's Chamber of Commerce found in a suitcase with a toy rubber alligator lodged in his throat. Now that was headline hitting, bizarre even. In Carl Hiaasen's violently funny first caper, reporters, cops, politicians and a very hungry crocodile do a danse macabre round the everglades that makes Miami Vice look like playschool.
DOUBLE WHAMMY: Dennis Gault, tycoon and fishing fanatic, was only the first of private eye R J Decker's problems. Hired by Gault to investigate cheating on the Florida bass-fishing circuit, Decker found himself surrounded by murder, obsession and a plethora of characters from beyond the fringe, to whom catching bass was more fun than sex. Pretty soon Decker's own neck is on the line as he discovers that fishing in Florida doesn't involve just killing bass...
Soft cover, good condition. Approximately 900 pages, all intact.