{"product_id":"9780997363074","title":"Flag Boy: A Tubby Dubonnet Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eA FRENCH QUARTER MASSACRE, ANOTHER IN MISSISSIPPI, AND A JIGSAW OF A PLOT!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever have author Tony Dunbar’s diabolically complex plotting, on-the-nose characters, and hawk-like ability to seize upon and capture everything New Orleans been on better display than in his jaw-dropping new thriller. FLAG BOY, the \u003cstrong\u003eTENTH\u003c\/strong\u003e entry in his popular Tubby Dubonnet series, is Dunbar’s most wickedly clever mystery since his Edgar-nominated CROOKED MAN, as dark and stormy a tale as ever slithered its noirish way out of New Orleans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe set-up alone’s enough to make you believe in the butterfly effect. Two acrobats burglarize a house; a sultan moves into a French Quarter mansion; a Mardi Gras Indian, in the wrong place at the wrong time, is wrongfully arrested; and our hero, lawyer and sometime-detective Tubby Dubonnet, comes upon a double murder while paying a social call in the wilds of Mississippi. Thus is the stage set. You know instantly-- because this is a Tubby Dubonnet mystery-- that these disparate events are intricately intertwined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext, as Elmore Leonard famously never said, all hell breaks loose—and with more than a touch of Leonard’s own brand of wry and knowing humor. You can barely turn the page before a bloody massacre leaves the sultan’s entire family dead, the Indian—now Tubby’s client--gets fingered for this one too, one of the acrobatic burglars hooks up with Tubby’s best friend, and some way, somehow, Dunbar weaves each of these wildly divergent strands—plus a few others—into the kind of old-fashioned puzzle mystery they just don’t write any more. It’s as if James M. Cain married Agatha Christie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody but Cain could pack a plot the size of all Louisiana into a space the size of a French Quarter balcony, and nobody but Christie could pull off the kind of riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma she pioneered. Dunbar does both—and all in one slim, thrill-packed book. Although perhaps at this point his long-time fans may be thinking, “Wait! How does he work the food in? There’s always food!” Well, that’s there too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeonard, Christie, and Cain fans should hurry on down, as well as devotees of John Grisham, Michael Connelly, Alafair Burke, Robert Tannenbaum, Lisa Scottoline, and John Ellsworth---in fact anyone who loves hard-boiled, humorous, noir, or puzzle mysteries, especially all rolled up into an extremely stylish legal thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthony Dunbar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035034435824,"sku":"9780997363074","price":11.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780997363074_p0.jpg?v=1763942206","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780997363074","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}