Naked Came the Manatee

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Naked Came the Manatee
Author	Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, Elmore Leonard, Tananarive Due, etc.
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Mystery thriller Satirical Parody novel
Publisher	Putnam
Publication date	1996
Media type	Print (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages	201 pp
ISBN	ISBN 978-0399141928

Naked Came the Manatee (ISBN 978-0399141928) is a mystery thriller parody novel published in 1996. It is composed of thirteen chapters, each written by a different Miami-area writer. It was originally published as a serial in the Miami Herald's Tropic magazine, one chapter per issue, and later published as a single novel. Its title is a reference to the literary hoax Naked Came the Stranger.

The plot involves three crime-fighting characters from three of the writers' previous, non-parody, mystery/thriller works coming together to help an elderly environmentalist and her granddaughter investigate the mystery behind a package delivered by a precocious Miami-area manatee named Booger. Dave Barry opens the novel in a spoof on Moby-Dick, with the line "Call me Booger..."

All proceeds from the novel were donated to charity.

The writers of the different chapters are: