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This is the third in the Florida Fables series, all of which are tales set in and around Sarasota, Florida, and based upon true events and crimes, as told by Gawain MacFarland. His career was spent taming a lawless frontier and trying to remain true to his badge in the face of boom times and raucous corruption. In the first book, The Story of the Sarasota Assassination Society, Gawain is a young man tasked with a dangerous job in the 1890's. He must bring to justice a fugitive who has murdered the Sarasota postmaster and expose the secret society responsible for the crime. In the second, The Story of the Sarasota Celery Fields & Other Mysteries, MacFarland, now calling himself Gabe, has risen to be City Marshal of a fast-growing town in the boom years of the 1920's - dealing with bootleggers, the changes brought by the incredibly wealthy Bertha Palmer, the treatment of convict labor in the turpentine camps, and the murder of three-time mayor Harry Higel. In The Story of Whiskey Corners, set in the beginning of the Great Depression, Gabe MacFarland, who has retired as a lawman only to become a detective for the Ringling Brothers Circus, solves the murder of the Coquettes on 24th Street, grapples with the gambling and booze mobs that invaded Florida, the Red Scares in Tampa and the tentacles of the Ku Klux Klan. And he must reclaim Clarinda, his wife, who had found that Sarasota has become, quite frankly, too bourgeois.

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Tony Dunbar has managed a deft blend of fact and fiction in his latest novel, The Story of the Sarasota Assassination Society. He paints a fascinating portrait of the good, the bad, and the ugly of Sarasota during its pioneer days, and it makes for a great read. Jeff LaHurd, author of Hidden History of Sarasota & Gulf Coast Chronicles The illimitable Tony Dunbar charges forward with another spectacular work, this time a historical fiction-a Southern, as this new genre is being called--about the most alluring of places, Old Florida. Lovingly researched and beautifully imagined, Dunbar brings to life a history that cannot stay buried, a moving and explosive story of murder, love, and redemption in the bizarre and rich landscape of the frontier. This fateful and gripping story is about the dramatic entanglements that kill us and those that save our lives. Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood & Wild Spectacle Ever the consummate storyteller, Tony Dunbar power-dives into Florida history to produce a crime thriller that makes you want to say, Wow! That really happened here? Can't wait to see how the series unfolds! Julie Smith, Edgar Award winning author of bestselling mystery series featuring Skip Langdon and Rebecca Schwartz.

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Tony Dunbar is a Georgia-born Louisiana lawyer who lives in Southwest Florida on a tidal creek rich with leaping fish, herons, manatees and passing alligators. He is an award-winning author and, in addition to the Florida Fables series he has written extensively about Southern history and civil rights and is the creator of the Tubby Dubonnet mysteries set in New Orleans.

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