Naked Came the Manatee
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Naked Came the Manatee | |
Author | Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Tananarive Due, etc. |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Mystery thriller Satirical Parody novel |
Publisher | Putnam |
Publication date | 1996 |
Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
Pages | 201 pp |
ISBN | ISBN 978-0399141928 |
Naked Came the Manatee (ISBN 978-0399141928) is a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each written by a different Miami-area writer. It was originally published as a serial in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, one chapter per issue, and later published as a single novel. Its title is a reference to the literary hoax Naked Came the Stranger.
The plot involves three crime-fighting characters from three of the writers' previous, non-parody, mystery/thriller works coming together to help an elderly environmentalist and her granddaughter investigate the mystery behind a package delivered by a precocious Miami-area manatee named Booger. Dave Barry opens the novel in a spoof on Moby-Dick, with the line "Call me Booger..."
All proceeds from the novel were donated to charity.
The writers of the different chapters are:
- Dave Barry
- Les Standiford
- Paul Levine
- Edna Buchanan
- James W. Hall
- Carolina Hospital
- Evelyn Mayerson
- Tananarive Due
- Brian Antoni
- Vicki Hendricks
- John Dufresne
- Elmore Leonard
- Carl Hiaasen