In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage- He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last.
By:
Carolyn G. Hart Imprint: Bantam USA Country of Publication: United States Dimensions:
Height: 171mm,
Width: 107mm,
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 221g ISBN:9780553295696 ISBN 10: 0553295691 Series:A Death on Demand Mysteries Pages: 370 Publication Date:01 July 1993 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
