Notable

By COLETTE BANCROFT
Published March 11, 2007

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Download one of these audiobooks to get you in that Keys state of mind during the drive down.

A Farewell to Arms (Audible. com, 2006) was the first novel Ernest Hemingway completed in Key West, where he lived for many years. Listen to it on the way to the Hemingway House museum.

Bone Key (Audible. com, 2002) by Florida thriller writer Les Standiford sends his series character John Deal to Key West, where a young man's murder leads Deal into a mystery that involves buried treasure, piracy and a $100,000 case of wine.

A Salty Piece of Land (Audible. com, 2004) is by Key West's patron - well, saint may not be the right word. It's by Jimmy Buffett, and who better to write a novel about a lighthouse on Cayo Loco, a 102-year-old Cuban baseball addict, an Indian shaman and a fishing guide named Capt. Kirk?

Colette Bancroft, Times book editor