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Title details for Curse of the Pogo Stick by Colin Cotterill - Available

Curse of the Pogo Stick

#5 in series

by Colin Cotterill
Clive Chafer
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In Vientiane, Laos, a booby-trapped corpse intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtui's intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siri's fiancée.

On his way back from a Communist Party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers under the direction of the village elder so that he will—in the guise of Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman with whom he shares his body—exorcise the headman's daughter, whose soul is possessed by a demon, and lift the curse of the pogo stick.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Dr. Siri Paiboun

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 14, 2011

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481555043
      • File size: 162980 KB
      • Duration: 05:39:32

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 5, 2008
      In the engaging fifth entry in Cotterill’s unusual crime series set in 1970s Laos (after 2007’s Anarchy and Old Dogs
      ), members of the Hmong tribe, an oppressed minority, spirit away coroner Siri Paiboun, for whom marriage looms, to aid in an exorcism revolving around the titular pogo stick. Cotterill sympathetically depicts the Hmong’s plight, striking a good balance between comedy and seriousness. The autopsy and investigation into the death of an unknown soldier booby-trapped with a grenade add intrigue. Readers will welcome such familiar characters as Madame Daeng, lab assistant Mr. Gueng and Nurse Dtui, though their perspectives tend to distract from Dr. Siri’s predicament. The time spent with the Hmong, not the attendant mysteries, provides the most satisfaction.

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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Languages

  • English

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