Author: BERNICE. CAREY
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781951473341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
THE FATAL PICNIC The Mallory family gathers for a picnic at the park. It looks like a perfect day for it, and they all start to arrive, ready to feast and play. Then Uncle Maurice shows up. Maurice of the sadistic tongue and crude humor. His wife Esther puts on her usual brave face, but no one is pleased except the kids, who love his antics. Most of the family have good reason to hate Uncle Maurice. He swindled Jocelyn and Marvin in financial deals. He found out about Fred's affair, and holds it over him. He torments Alison every time he sees her, belittling her unmercifully. Even his son, David, hates him, and with just cause. Maurice has spread so much poison among the Mallorys, it really comes as no surprise when the shots ring out... THEIR NEAREST AND DEAREST Salinas lettuce grower Stanley West is found murdered at his desk, shot in the chest with his own gun. At first they police are completely baffled. West had many visitors that day, but who dropped in on him that evening with such a grudge that could only be settled by murder? His wife Laverne becomes their first suspect, simply because she is his wife. Chuck Willet, a slightly shady real estate friend who wanted West to back him in a local political bid, could have been upset when West wouldn't support his campaign. Hal Schmidt owned him a lot of money, and might have wanted to cancel a debt. But then Laverne's daughter Patty tells the cops about a young man she had been dating, a young man from the worker camp whom her father didn't approve of. And the cops know they have their man. Or do they?
The Fatal Picnic / Their Nearest and Dearest
The Fatal Picnic
Author: Bernice Carey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Everyone in the family hated cold, sadistic Uncle Maurice, and when they all met at a picnic, violence broke out.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Everyone in the family hated cold, sadistic Uncle Maurice, and when they all met at a picnic, violence broke out.
The Bibliography of Crime Fiction, 1749-1975
Author: Allen J. Hubin
Publisher: [San Diego] : University Extension, University of California, San Diego
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Publisher: [San Diego] : University Extension, University of California, San Diego
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
Book Review Digest
Crime Fiction, 1749-1980
Author: Allen J. Hubin
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Garland Pub.
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Doubleday Crime Club Compendium, 1928-1991
Author: Ellen Nehr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
Who Done It?
Author: Ordean A. Hagen
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Bowker
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art
National Library Service Cumulative Book Review Index, 1905-1974: Authors. [A-Z
Author: National Library Service Corporation
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Tickled to Death
Author: Joan Hess
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429946822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Murder is no laughing matter—especially when it comes to marriage. So before Luanne gets in too deep with her new flame, a dentist named Dick, she'd like her best friend to do a background check. Did Dick murder his two previous wives? That's what Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy intends to discover... Everything Claire turns up on this would-be blue-beard keeps leading her down a slippery slope. The police are determined to prove Dick guilty of double homicide, but Claire's not so sure. Something about his story just doesn't add up. But if Dick didn't do the deed, who did? The only thing Claire knows for sure is that Luanne won't have a moment's rest until she finds out...
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429946822
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Murder is no laughing matter—especially when it comes to marriage. So before Luanne gets in too deep with her new flame, a dentist named Dick, she'd like her best friend to do a background check. Did Dick murder his two previous wives? That's what Arkansas bookseller and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy intends to discover... Everything Claire turns up on this would-be blue-beard keeps leading her down a slippery slope. The police are determined to prove Dick guilty of double homicide, but Claire's not so sure. Something about his story just doesn't add up. But if Dick didn't do the deed, who did? The only thing Claire knows for sure is that Luanne won't have a moment's rest until she finds out...