Thread: Name that book?
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Old 12-14-2015, 10:38 AM   #902
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Originally Posted by Pulpmeister View Post
Not a book, a short story: it was called Tropical Disturbance, I am fairly sure, was set in Florida, and the PI hero was, again I think, Oscar Sail (or Sale). But I don't know who wrote it, nor if that PI appeared in any other stories. I am sure I read it in EQMM in the 60s or 70s, ad it has stuck in my mind ever since. I even remember an excellent simile, if not word-perfectly, as a said tropical disturbance encounters a yacht: "the head-sail went to pieces with a sound like cats fighting."
Lester Dent, Angelfish is an alternative title.
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