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Dancing Aztecs

by Donald E. Westlake
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The hunt is on for a valuable statue in this comic crime thriller from “the funniest man in the world” (The Washington Post).
 A small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one of his fakes, and ships the real one to New York City for an under-the-table sale to a museum. The statues travel to America spread out among five crates, labeled to ensure that delivery goes as planned. But it doesn’t work. Asked to pick up the crate marked “E” at the airport, delivery man Jerry Manelli, confused by his client’s Spanish accent, takes crate “A” instead. The statue disappears into the city, leading him on a baffling chase, which—if he comes up with the wrong Aztec—could cost him his life.
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Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road

Kindle Book

  • Release date: October 25, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781453228302
  • Release date: October 25, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781453228302
  • File size: 2437 KB
  • Release date: October 25, 2011

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Fiction Mystery

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English

The hunt is on for a valuable statue in this comic crime thriller from “the funniest man in the world” (The Washington Post).
 A small South American republic has decided to capitalize on its national symbol: a prized gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest. The president asks a sculptor to make sixteen copies of it for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with one of his fakes, and ships the real one to New York City for an under-the-table sale to a museum. The statues travel to America spread out among five crates, labeled to ensure that delivery goes as planned. But it doesn’t work. Asked to pick up the crate marked “E” at the airport, delivery man Jerry Manelli, confused by his client’s Spanish accent, takes crate “A” instead. The statue disappears into the city, leading him on a baffling chase, which—if he comes up with the wrong Aztec—could cost him his life.
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Fiction Mystery