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008			092104s2008 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2007044006
020			_a9781569474853
050	0	0	_aPR6053.O778 _bC87 2008
082	0	0	_aMYS COT
100	1		_aCotterill, Colin.
245	1	0	_aCurse of the pogo stick _c/ Colin Cotterill
260			_aNew York _b: Soho _c, c2008.
300			_axii, 240 p. _c; 20 cm.
500			_a"A Dr. Siri investigation set in Laos"--Jacket. (Number 5 in the series)
520			_aIn Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse, intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner of Laos, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui's intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri's fiance. On his way back from a communist party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers under the direction of the village elder so that he will-in the guise of Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman with whom he shares his body-exorcise the headman's daughter whose soul is possessed by a demon, and lift the curse of the pogo stick. Colin Cotterill is the author of The Coroner's Lunch , Thirty-Three Teeth , Disco for the Departed , and Anarchy and Old Dogs , featuring seventy-three-year-old Dr. Siri Paiboun, national coroner of Laos. He and his wife live in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he teaches at the university.
650		0	_aPaiboun, Siri, Doctor (Fictitious character) _v--Fiction.
650		0	_aOlder people _x--Fiction
650		0	_aCoroners _v--Fiction.
651		0	_aLaos _v--Fiction.
655		7	_aMystery fiction
942			_cMO
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