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Commissaire Tama, Chief of Police

(2000)
(A book in the Trouble in Tahiti series)
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WORMS IN THE APPLE OF PARADISE! CRIME IN TAHITI Just like the golden-skinned vahines, it's not like it is anywhere else.... A con man who pulls gold nuggets from the bellies of fish.... A banker who drops dead at the front-door delivery of his own coffin.... An animal-rights sex-kitten who murders a foie gras producer next to his goose pens.... A million-dollar sniffer dog stabbed to death for reasons unknown.... seven-foot transvestite hooker who brutalizes her clients.... BUT FOR BIZARRE CRIMES, A UNIQUE DETECTIVE: COMMISSAIRE de POLICE ALEXANDRE TAMA Amateur magician, the fattest man in Tahiti and its champion trenchman, he's also the toughest and smartest cop in the Islands - A relentless Chief of Police who tracks down the local troublemakers with the same intensity he devotes to the neverending search for the perfect boeuf bourguignon....


Genre: Mystery

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