Dean Barrett
Legal name: Barrett, Dean
Birth place: New London, CT, USA
Birth date: 10 October 1942
Language: English
Bibliographic comments: Only Dean Barrett’s titles related to Asia are listed here.
Biographic comments:
Collections
Murder at the Horny Toad Bar & Other Outrageous Tales of Thailand
2004
Library edition: March 2013 edition
Village East Books
No ISBN
Digital
$2.99
Notes:
• Contains genre and non-genre fiction and essays.
• Highlighted fiction is set in Thailand.
Fiction: The Death of Ron Adams // The Fish and the Interpreter // Obsession // The Legend of Hard Bones
Haggerty // Murder at the Horny Toad Bar // The Case of the Uneven Playing Field // Happy New Year (But Where
Am I?)
Essays: In Search of Seri Court // Just One Beer // By (the Wrong) Train Through Southern Thailand // Why We Love
Them // They’re Everywhere! // Cambodian Women // Nana Plaza // No Question About It // Hemingway Wrestled
the Wrong Bull // You Remember Me? // Baby Care Hostess // Why I Can’t Get Any Writing Done in Thailand // The
Great China Scholar // Bored with the Rings // An Expert on Thai Rice // The Eternal Search // My Kind of Woman
// Thai Girlfriends // Present Perfect // A Test of True Love // Brothel Visits // Bra Alarms: For the Thai Girlfriend
Who Has Everything // The Tourist // Too Good to Be True // The Making of 'Thailand: Land of Beautiful Women' //
Top Secret! // Delightfully Tacky Yet Unrefined // To the Person Whose Fax Message Woke Me Up at 2.38am This
Sunday Morning // The Ghost Who Loved Me (Kind Of)
The Boat Girl and the Magic Fish
2010
< January 2010, 1st edition
Village East Books
ISBN 978-0-61377-783-4
Trade paperback, 32 pages
Unknown cover price
Notes:
• Set in Hong Kong.
Short fiction chapbooks
Dragon Slayer
2007
Library edition: September 2007, 1st edition, 1st printing
Village East Books
ISBN 978-0-9788888-0-0
Trade paperback, 349 pages
$12.95
Notes:
• 3 novellas set in China.
Fiction: Bones of the Chinamen // Dragon Slayer // Golden Dragon
