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Fanny Flamingo is the pseudonym for Barbara Parker, PJ Parrish, Elaine Viets, Randy Rawls, PJ Pippin, Barbara Fox, Janet Rogerson, AM Abramson, Joan Bond, Barbara Schading, Susan Andrews, Kate Holmes, Audrey Roberts, Britin Haller, Gregg Brickman, Carolyn Cain, Diane Warner, Richard Helms, Stephanie Saxon Levine, Victoria Landis, Cynthia S. Smith, and Joan Mickelson. Most of whom live in this crazy paradise we call South Florida. Some of whom enjoy it.
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| Naked Came the Flamingo |
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There are a million stories in the Naked City. This, unfortunately, is one of them.
Forensic accountant Fanny Flamingo is about to swoop down on the $50,000,000 missing from the Grabstone Corp. - until she's drugged, stripped naked, and left to take the fall for Harold Grabstone's murder. Not even her former lover, Detective Ace Broderick, believes her squawks of innocence. Fanny's got to fly and everybody from the butler to a pack of hungry piranhas is on her tail.
Naked is the brainchild of Barbara Parker, who saw it as an opportunity to give some of our local "publishing challenged" writers an opportunity to participate in a fun, Florida mystery. Naked is a spoof on Florida Noir novels, and a fun read. |
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| Paperback / $14.00 |
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| To order email us at murdermb@gate.net |
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| Naked Came the Flamingo |
| by Betty Smith |
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First we had Naked Came the Stranger.
Then we had Naked Came the Manatee.
Then we got Naked Came the Phoenix.
And now we have
Ta-ta-ta-ta (Drum Roll here)
Naked Came the Flamingo!
This is a fun, funny book! Originally conceived by Barbara Parker to give some of the unpublished authors in South Florida a chance at the big time, Naked Came the Flamingo (NCTF) is a spoof of the Florida Noir Crime Novel personified. Elaine Viets sets the tone in the first chapter introducing Fanny Flamingo, a forensic accountant in South Florida, hired to uncover money fraud, specifically the $50,000,000 missing from the Grabstone Corp. Along the way, she gets in and out of scrapes, in and out of her clothes, and in and out of love.
Written with the tongue placed firmly in the cheek, NCTF is a quick entertaining read. I found myself laughing out loud in several places (some of the author biographies are outrageous). And the blurb from Jeremiah Healy on the back is not bad either. No collection of Florida crime fiction is complete without this book. And you may even discover a rising star in this bunch.
Published by Murder on the Beach Publications. |
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| You may contact Betty Smith at |
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| Posted 11-05-2004 |
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