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The Story of the Sarasota Assassination Society Paperback – May 10, 2022
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A rich historical novel set in Southwest Florida, the first of a series featuring Gabe MacFarland, a lawman who solves crimes that truly happened. It begins with a young man's quest to capture the Sarasota Assassination Society.
In the beginning, Sarasota was a tropical outpost for cowboys and mullet fishermen, but in the 1880s, as "pioneers" with money began moving in from the North, jealousies, political differences and greed gave rise to a secret Vigilance Society whose members plotted to assassinate competitors and foes. The murder of the town's first postmaster launched young Gawain MacFarlane's tireless pursuit of the assassins across the wild scrub prairies of Southwest Florida. At the end of the chase he was able to answer the question that has plagued historians since - what was the true motive behind this murderous conspiracy
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.
"Though I was too young by today's conventions, I had the chance to do a very daring thing that no one else wanted to try, which was to go on a manhunt and bring in a murderer. It's hard not to be proud of that, looking back.
Some of this I will relate as it was told to me. Some I'll have to imagine, based on what I saw in people. But for the most part, I was there.
My name is Gawain Wallace MacFarlane, and I'm now an almost famous lawman."
- Print length248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBlind Pass Publications LLC
- Publication dateMay 10, 2022
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-100578392437
- ISBN-13978-0578392431
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- Publisher : Blind Pass Publications LLC (May 10, 2022)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0578392437
- ISBN-13 : 978-0578392431
- Item Weight : 10.9 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.56 x 8.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #940,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #10,009 in True Crime (Books)
- #15,818 in U.S. State & Local History
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About the author
Tony Dunbar started writing at quite a young age. When he was 12, growing up in Atlanta, he told people that he was going to be a writer, but it took him until the age of 19 to publish his first book, Our Land Too, based on his civil rights experiences in the Mississippi delta. For entertainment, Tony turned not to television but to reading mysteries such as dozens of Rex Stout’s Nero Wolfe stories. Among his favorites are: Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon, and Tony Hillerman, and John D. MacDonald, and Mickey Spillane, and…
He has lived in New Orleans for a long, long time, and in addition to writing mysteries and more serious fare he attended Tulane Law School and continues an active practice involving, he says, “money.” That practice took a hit in the Hurricane Katrina flooding, but the experience did produce a seventh Tubby Dubonnet mystery novel, Tubby Meets Katrina
The Tubby series so far comprises seven books: The Crime Czar, City of Beads, Crooked Man, Shelter from the Storm, Trick Question, Lucky Man, and Tubby Meets Katrina. The main character, Tony says, is the City of New Orleans itself, the food, the music, the menace, the party, the inhabitants. But Tubby Dubonnet is the actual protagonist, and he is, like the author, a New Orleans attorney. Unlike the author, however, he finds himself involved in serious crime and murder, and he also ears exceptionally well. He is “40 something,” the divorced father of three daughters, a collector of odd friends and clients, and he is constantly besieged by ethical dilemmas. But he is not fat; he is a former jock and simply big.
Tony’s writing spans quite a few categories and is as varied as his own experiences. He has written about people’s struggle for survival, growing out of his own work as a community organizer in Mississippi and Eastern Kentucky. He has written about young preachers and divinity students who were active in the Southern labor movement in the 1930s, arising from his own work with the Committee of Southern Churchmen and Amnesty International. He has written and edited political commentary, inspired by seeing politics in action with the Voter Education Project. And he has had the most fun with the mysteries, saying, “I think I can say everything I have to say about the world through the medium of Tubby Dubonnet.”
Hurricane Katrina and the floods, which caused the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans for months, blew Tony into an off-resume job serving meals in the parking lot of a Mississippi chemical plant to hundreds of hardhats imported to get the complex dried out and operating. It also gave Tony time to write Tubby Meets Katrina, which was the first published novel set in the storm. It is a little grimmer than most of the books in the series, describing as it does the chaos in the sparsely populated city immediately after the storm. “It was a useful way for me to vent my anger,” Tony says. Still, even in a deserted metropolis stripped of electric power. Tubby manages to find a good meal.
The Tubby Dubonnet series has been nominated for both the Anthony Award and the Edgar Allen Poe Award. While the last one was published in 2006, the author says he is now settling down to write again. But about what? “Birds and wild flowers,” he suggests. Or “maybe television evangelists.” Or, inevitably, about the wondrous and beautiful city of New Orleans.
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Dunbar’s descriptions of the landscapes—especially the rivers, swamps, land forms and plants—transported me to the wilds of central Florida without the annoyance of a change in Atlanta, buzzing mosquitos, biting poisonous snakes or the apparently omnipresent alligators.
The book has only one flaw: it ends before the story does. As I closed the back cover I was left wanting to start Book 2, “The Story of the Sarasota Celery Fields”. Alas I will have to await its release!
The structure of the book is a little cumbersome in that he is telling a big story in a small book this could be better told in a saga novel.