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Disco for the Departed
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
The Coroner’s LunchThirty-Three Teeth
Copyright © 2006 by Colin Cotterill
All rights reserved.
Published bySoho Press, Inc.853 BroadwayNew York, NY 10003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Cotterill, Colin.Disco for the departed / Colin Cotterill.p. cm.ISBN-10: 1-56947-428-1ISBN-13: 978-1-56947-428-0eISBN-13: 978-1-61695-118-41. Paiboun, Siri, Doctor (Fictitious character)—Fiction.2. Older people—Fiction. 3. Physicians—Fiction.4. Coroners—Fiction. 5. Laos—Fiction. I. Title.
PR6053.O778D57 2006823’.92—dc22 2005055462
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To Siri and Soun, who, despite all the tragedies,have survived and grown and now have two beautifuldaughters. To Poki and Panoy from Loong C.
Contents
Title Page
Copyright Page
1. Guesthouse Number One
2. The Red-Tag Bag Room
3. A Restaurant with No Food
4. Concrete Man
5. The Missing Moron
6. The Amateur Interpreter of English
7. The Cave of the Dead
8. Divine Impotence
9. A Wart on the Hog
10. The Million-Spider Elvis Suit
11. A Thoroughly Decent Proposal
12. Behind the Teak Wardrobe
13. The Small Blue Peugeot
14. Mrs. Nuts Goes Home
15. Laoness
16. The White Negro
17. Autopsy of the Pink Orchid
18. Friendship, Cooperation, and Dengue Fever
19. When Everything You Think You Know Is Wrong
20. The Plimsoll Pirouettes
21. Beware the Snowy-Haired Avenger
Guesthouse Number One
Dr. Siri lay beneath the grimy mesh of the mosquito net, watching the lizard’s third attempt. Twice, the small gray creature had scurried up the wall and ventured out across the ceiling. On both occasions, the unthinkable had happened. The animal had lost its grip and come plummeting down with a splat onto the bare concrete of the guesthouse floor. For a house lizard this was the equivalent of a man coming unstuck from the ground and falling up with a crash onto the ceiling. Siri could see the stunned confusion on its little puckered face. It looked around to get its bearings, then headed once more for the wall.
For over a month, Dr. Siri Paiboun, the national coroner, had been wondering whether his new incarnation might be disruptive to the natural laws of animal behavior. The peculiarities could have started before, but it wasn’t until the mongrel from the ice works began to build a nest in his front yard that he took any notice. She somehow managed to drag old car seats and cement sacks through his front gate and mold them into a very uncomfortable-looking roost. And there she sat patiently, da ............

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