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Basket Case by Hiaasen, Carl is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review Take one dead rock & roll star, his Courtney Love-type widow, the mysterious deaths of his former bandmates, and the lost tracks of a comeback album. Stir in Jack Tagger, a middle-aged investigative reporter obsessed with death since his banishment to the obit desk; a fetching young editor with a yen for our hero; and a boss looking for a reason to fire him. Put them in the hands of a master like Carl Hiaasen, who adds his trademark flourishes (who else would use a frozen lizard as a weapon?) to a creaky plot like this one, and the result is a winner. Florida is full of caper writers with journalistic credentials, and plenty of them have a deft hand with quirky characters, but no one in the genre is better than Hiaasen. --Jane Adams From Publishers Weekly Hiassen gets back to his roots with this (almost) straight-ahead mystery, but doesn't skimp on the funny stuff as he follows the adventures of Jack Tagger, down-on-his-luck journalist relegated to the obit beat at a smalltown Florida daily. While researching a death notice, Jack stumbles by accident upon an actual news story: former rocker Jimmy Stoma has drowned while diving in the Bahamas, and his widow, wan

Who reads Basket Case?

Author

Hiaasen, Carl

Publisher

Mysterious Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375411076

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Humour

Rating

3.81 / 5 (12,043 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13