Tourist Season

Census claim confirmed. The US G. P. Putnam's Sons edition, New York, 1986, is the true first: Hiaasen is American and no earlier or simultaneous foreign-language edition exists. No UK hardcover of 1986 is documented in the sources consulted, so no UK-vs-US precedence question arises here. One framing correction worth carrying: Tourist Season is Hiaasen's first solo novel, not his first novel — Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1982) and A Death in China (1984) were written with William D. Montalbano — so dealer copy calling it "the author's first novel" is loose. The Warner Books US paperback (1987) is a reprint, not a "first thus."