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Critter from the Black Lagoon (2015)

by Esri Allbritten
(#4 in Gigi Chihuahua/Tripping Magazine Mysteries)

Tripping magazine visits central Florida when Angus hears of a possible Hogzilla in the Ocala National Forest. Porky Johnson, proprietor of the International Bacon Museum, claims his leg was broken by a living Daeodon, a Miocene-era animal that resembled a boar the size of a rhino. Could this monstrous creature survive millennia, or is it a publicity stunt for Porky’s museum? A mysterious stranger puts Tripping in touch with celebrity paleontologist Jack Hannigan, who is working a nearby dig with his lovely wife and even lovelier grad student. When a Daeodon tusk and a corpse turn up at the dig site, more than the media takes an interest. Alligators and shady Russians threaten Tripping’s reporters as they hunt for the truth, or at least a good story.