Five overlooked classic books about the Sunshine State

Randy Wayne White's novels featuring marine biologist Doc Ford and quirky pal, Tomlinson, have enjoyed a growing cult following since the first book appeared in 1990. At The Daily Beast, the Florida author tagged five overlooked classic books from the Sunshine State, including:

Peter Matthiessen, Killing Mister Watson

If Florida has attracted the attention of a writer more gifted than Matthiessen, I am unaware. Killing Mister Watson is the first in his masterpiece trilogy Shadow Country that carts us back in time, into the Everglades, and tracks the deeds and black heart of a man who actually lived there and thrived, as viewed through the eyes of neighbors who, on a summer morning in 1910, used 33 bullets to end the life of Mr. Edgar J. Watson.

Read about another entry on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue