The Stingray Shuffle

The Stingray Shuffle

infobox Book |
name = The Stingray Shuffle
title_orig =
translator =


author = Tim Dorsey
cover_artist =
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Crime novel
publisher = William Morrow (USA) & Robert Hale (UK)
release_date = February 2003 (US) & December 2003 (UK)
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 320 pp (USA hardback edition)
isbn = ISBN 0-06-052045-0 (USA hardback edition) & ISBN ? (UK paperback edition)
preceded_by = Triggerfish Twist
followed_by = Cadillac Beach

"The Stingray Shuffle" is Tim Dorsey's fifth novel, published in 2003.

Plot summary

Sales of "The Stingray Shuffle", a bad novel by bad novelist Ralph Krunkleton, have soared recently. The book's publishers, not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, mount a publicity blitz culminating in a train journey with the author from New York to Miami. What they do not realize is that no one is reading the book; dealers are using a bookstore as a front, hollowing out copies of "Shuffle" to hide drugs.

Meanwhile, Serge A. Storms and pothead pal Lenny Lipowicz resume their pursuit of $5 million worth of insurance fraud payout. Thrown into the mix are Johnny Vegas the accidental virgin, Paul the passive-aggressive private eye, Ernest Hemingway lookalike Jethro Maddox, and the world's least competent drug cartel. Most of these characters find their way onto the Stingray Shuffle, the temporarily-rechristened train to Miami.

"The Stingray Shuffle" ties up a three-book plot arc that began with "Florida Roadkill", continued with "Hammerhead Ranch Motel", and was then shelved for two years while Dorsey wrote the only slightly relative "Triggerfish Twist" and "Orange Crush".

It is ultimately revealed that Serge's plan for the money is to buy a trip into space (and a monogrammed spacesuit) from the Russians.


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