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Carl Hiaasen’s Bad Monkey and six more of my favourite comic crime novels
Forget Mark Twain, Kinky Friedman, Nora Ephron and David Sedaris: the funniest writer to come out of America is Carl Hiaasen. The former columnist for the Miami Herald published his first novel, Tourist Season, in 1986. “Sparky Harper and the Greater Miami …