Book DetailsCountry: USA
Language: English
Genre: Crime
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 2002
Fictional Artist: Jimmy Stoma
Genre: Singer/Songwriter
Country: USA
Real World Analogue: Warren Zevon, a long time friend of Hiaasen
Jacket Blurb:
Once a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, "plotting to resurrect my career by yoking my byline to some famous stiff." Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dead in a fishy-smelling scuba "accident" may be just the stiff Jack needs-if only he can figure out what happened. Standing in the way are [among others] an editor who wants Jack to "break her cherry," Stoma's ambitious pop-singer widow, and the soulless, profit-hungry newspaper owner Jack once publicly humiliated. As clues from Stoma's music give Jack Tagger the chance to trade obits for a story that could hit the front page, murder gives his career a new lease on life.
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