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Tishomingo Blues Book

Take a high diver who witnesses a murder from his perch 80 feet above a Mississippi casino. Add a cooler-than-thou con artist from Detroit who's out to take over the Dixie mafia's lucrative Gulf Coast drug business. Throw in a crooked deputy sheriff and an honest state cop. Put them all in costume along with a bunch of other "reenactors" bent on refighting an important Civil War battle, season with plenty of historic detail, and you've got all the classic ingredients of an Elmore Leonard novel--except for drama, suspense, or mystery, that is. This is a rib-tickler in the Carl Hiaasen/Dave Barry tradition rather than the kind of thriller Leonard wrote before Hollywood discovered him. As the author himself explains, his intent was to entertain himself by gathering an odd assortment of characters, building a story as they bump heads, and seeing what happens. And as usual, he carries it off with style, wit, and brio. Readers will be casting the inevitable movie in their heads (Samuel L. Jackson is a lock for Robert, who glides into town in a flashy Jag and gets the action going) as they chuckle their way to the last hilarious page. --Jane AdamsRead More

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  • Product Description

    With its crackling dialogue, colorful characters, and lightning-quick pace, Elmore Leonard's thirty-seventh novel is set in Tunica, Mississippi, where high diver Dennis Lenahan gets a gig at the Tishomingo Lodge & Casino. Tired of traveling from carnival to carnival, performing spectacular dives from his 80-foot ladder into a pool that "looks the size of a fifty-cent piece," Dennis no sooner settles in when he becomes a witness to a coldblooded killing. If it weren't for ex-ballplayer Charlie "Let's See Your Arm" Hoke, the hotel's celebrity host, Dennis would already be dead. But Charlie knows the killers and convinces them that Dennis will stay quiet. Except there was a second witness, Robert Taylor, who carries a photograph of his great-granddaddy's lynching along with a gun in his briefcase. Soon Dennis finds himself participating in a Civil War battle reenactment with the Dixie Mafia and the law, all part of a scheme to muscle in on the southern drug trade. But is Dennis hooked up with the bad guys or the really bad guys?

  • 006008331X
  • 9780060083311
  • Elmore Leonard
  • 1 February 2002
  • HarperLargePrint
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
  • Lrg
  • Large Print
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