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Book recommendations

Any novel recommendations about mysteries about whales? 2001:569:766D:AB00:300C:74DF:A1A3:2668 (talk) 07:29, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Moby Dick. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 07:56, 7 July 2016 (UTC) (Not to be confused with Moby. Or WP:Moby. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 07:56, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Moby-Dick. No hyphen, no points. Tevildo (talk) 08:08, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

I'm not much of a fiction reader, but I found Top 10 Whale Tales, Books about Whales, Dolphins or other Marine Mammals (includes non-fiction), Subject: Whales › Fiction and Best Selling Whales Fiction Books. Good hunting! Alansplodge (talk) 08:34, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Yep, Whale tails are OK to read when the missus aint there _Muffled ^Pocketed 15:43, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

• This might not be totally helpful, but there is a sci-fi book (which I bought but haven't yet read) by David Brin, Startide Rising in which humans and sentient dolphins colonize an alien planet. It should be easy to find at Amazon, if not here or the local library. μηδείς (talk) 22:16, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

If only Dolphin Island (novel) led to Category:Cetacean mystery novels. Carbon Caryatid (talk) 23:51, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

Found at www.amazon.com: Whales: Touching the Mystery by Doug Thompson. AllBestFaith (talk) 16:28, 8 July 2016 (UTC)