Where is Joe Merchant?

"Five years ago, rock star Joe Merchant committed suicide, yet he keeps popping back into the tabloid headlines."
"The search is on for Joe Merchant, a supposedly dead rock guitarist who keeps turning up."
"Fleeing the creditors who own his plane, Frank Bama heads for Cuba, where he meets up with an heiress to a hemorrhoid-ointment fortune and investigates the disappearance of her rock-star brother."@en
"""Where is Joe Merchant?" Five years ago, the rock star committed suicide, yet he keeps popping back into the tabloid headlines like a piece of toast. Could he actually be alive? That's what his sister, hemorrhoid-ointment heiress Trevor Kane, wants to know. Journalist Rudy Breno cares only that Merchant gets bigger headlines than Elvis. And for renegade seaplane pilot Frank Bama, the mystery is turning his life upside down. Once again, Jimmy Buffett cooks up an irresistible gumbo of dreamers, wackos, pirates, and sharks, as he leads Trevor and Frank on a wild chase through the Caribbean to a place where anything can happen ... and everything does."--Jacket."