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Tourist Season Study Guide & Notes

This Study Guide consists of approximately 55 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Tourist Season.
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Tourist Season Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:

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Tourist Season Plot Summary

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In this comic mystery novel a newspaper reporter turned private eye matches wits against

a reporter he once worked with, a wanna-be Cuban terrorist, a black former Miami Dolphin football player, and a Seminole Indian trying to make amends for the demise of his ancestors and homelands. The overall goal of the bad guys is to cause tourism in the Miami area to be so dangerous that people will leave the area en masse and allow it to return to the wilderness it was before development, thus allowing the animals and birds to take back the land that was once their natural habitat.

When a Shriner from Illinois disappears while attending a convention in Miami almost no one except his wife and a few other Shriners notice. However, when the president of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, B. D. "Sparky" Parker, ends up drowned in a suitcase with his...
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