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100	1		_aHiaasen, Carl
245	1	0	_aBasket case _c/ Carl Hiaasen
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, c2002.
300			_a317 p. _c; 25 cm.
520			_aOnce a hotshot investigative reporter, Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily, plotting to resurrect my newspaper 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, might be the stiff of Jack's dreams if only he can figure out what happened. Standing in the way are (among others) his ambitious young editor, who hasn't yet fired anyone but plans to break her cherry on Jack; the rock star's pop-singer widow, who's using the occasion of her husband's death to re-launch her own career; and the soulless, profit-hungry owner of the newspaper, whom Jack once publicly humiliated at a stockholders' meeting. With clues from the dead rock singer's music, Jack ultimately unravels Jimmy Stoma's strange fate in a hilariously hard-won triumph for muckraking journalism, and for the death-obsessed obituary writer himself. Always be halfway prepared is Jack Tagger's motto and it's more than enough to guarantee a wickedly funny, brilliantly entertaining novel from Carl Hiaasen.
650		4	_aObituaries _x--Authorship _v--Fiction
650			_aJournalists _v--Fiction
651			_aFlorida _v-Fiction
655		7	_aHumorous fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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