Question: Tourist Season, which is the first solo novel by Carl Hiaasen was written in what year?

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Hoot (novel): Hoot is a 2002 young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen.  The setting takes place in Florida, where new arrival Roy makes two oddball friends and a bad enemy, and joins an effort to stop construction of a pancake house which would destroy a colony of burrowing owls who live on the site.  The book won a Newbery Honor award in 2003.  A film adaptation of the book was released in May 2006, starring Logan Lerman, Brie Larson, and Cody Linley.  Hiaasen and Wil Shriner, the director and script-writer, "fought long and hard to stay truthful to the book."

Skink - No Surrender: Skink - No Surrender is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen, published on September 23, 2014.  It is described as Hiaasen's first young adult novel.  He has authored four previous novels for "young" readers.  Like all of his novels, it is set in Hiaasen's native Florida.

Chomp (novel): Chomp is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2012, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida.  It is his fourth young adult novel.  His previous three, also about Florida wildlife, are "Hoot", "Flush" and "Scat".

Carl Hiaasen: Carl Hiaasen ( ; born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, and novelist.

Tourist Season (novel): Tourist Season is a 1986 novel by Carl Hiaasen.  It was his first solo novel, after co-writing several mystery/thriller novels with William Montalbano.

Eragon: Eragon is the first novel in the Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini.  After writing the first draft for a year, Paolini spent a second year rewriting and fleshing out the story and characters.  His parents saw the final manuscript and in 2001 decided to self-publish "Eragon;" Paolini spent a year traveling around the United States promoting the novel.  By chance, the book was discovered by Carl Hiaasen, who got it re-published by Alfred A. Knopf.  The re-published version was released on August 26, 2003.

Strip Tease (novel): Strip Tease is a 1993 novel by Carl Hiaasen.  Like most of his other novels, it is a crime novel set in Florida and features Hiaasen's characteristic black humor.  The novel focuses on a single mother who has turned to exotic dancing to earn enough money to gain legal custody of her young daughter, and ends up matching wits with a lecherous United States Congressman and his powerful corporate backers.

Basket Case (novel): Basket Case, published in 2002, is the ninth novel by Carl Hiaasen.  It is a classic Hiaasen crime novel, set in Florida, and centers on the death of singer James Stomarti (aka Jimmy Stoma), an ostensibly washed-up former lead man of "Jimmy and the Slut Puppies".

Double Whammy (novel): Double Whammy is a 1987 novel by Carl Hiaasen.  The protagonist, a private investigator, is hired to expose a celebrity bass fisherman as a cheat and is drawn into a frame-up for murder.  The book introduced the character of "Skink" (Clinton Tyree), who becomes a recurring character in Hiaasen's subsequent novels.

Flush (novel): Flush is a young adult novel by Carl Hiaasen first published in 2005, and set in Hiaasen's native Florida.  It is his second young adult novel, after "Hoot".  The plot is similar to that of Hoot but it doesn't have the same cast and is not a continuation/sequel.  The plot centers around Noah Underwood, a teenage boy whose father enlists his help to catch a repeat environmental offender in the act.

Supporting paragraphs: Tourist Season (novel) Carl Hiaasen
Answer: 1986