01984cam a2200277 4500 2289500 TxAuBib 20071009120000.0 240306s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780553801569 0553801562 (OCoLC)42397624 TxAuBib Riordan, Rick. The last king of Texas / Rick Riordan. New York : Bantam Books, 2000. 320 p. ; 25 cm. When a controversial English professor is found dead, shot twice in the chest with a .45, Tres Navarre--P.I. and erstwhile Berkeley Ph.D.--is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Police assure Tres they already have a suspect, a stone-cold killer who's just returned from a stint in a Mexican jail and is suspected of murdering a Texas amusement-park kingpin years before. While the police wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve...and walk in a dead man's shoes. It should be an easy assignment. But one thing Tres Navarre doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin. He quickly becomes embroiled in a nasty tangle of family secrets, backstabbing squabbles for control of a million-dollar amusement ride business, and a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side. Behind it all--the specter of a murdered man who once proclaimed himself the King of the South Texas carnivals. 20071009. Navarre, Tres (Fictitious character) Fiction. Private investigators Fiction. English teachers Fiction. Texas Fiction. Mystery fiction. TXMOO