Little Tiny Teeth (A Gideon Oliver Mystery) - Softcover

Elkins, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425222500 ISBN 13: 9780425222508

Publisher: Berkley, 2008

Synopsis

From the Edgar® Award winning author of Uneasy Relations. Starring Professor Gideon Oliver? ?a likable, down-to-earth, cerebral sleuth.? (CHICAGO TRIBUNE)

Sailing the Amazon with a group of botanists, ?Skeleton Detective? Gideon Oliver is on his dream vacation. But it turns nightmarish when fierce head-hunters narrowly miss killing the group leader, then a deranged passenger kills a botanist and flees. Long-past enmities and resentments?and new ones as well?might explain things. And when a fresh skeleton turns up in the river, Gideon is sure that, in this jungle full of predators, humans may be the deadliest of all.

About this title

About the Author:

Aaron Elkins is the author of the Edgar Award-winning Gideon Oliver mysteries.

From Booklist:

Elkins, who has won the Edgar Award for his Gideon Oliver series, trots out forensic anthropology professor Oliver for another adventure, this time along the Amazon River. Elkins totally avoids the sin of sloth represented by some mystery writers who habitually underresearch their topics. Elkins always presents a rich buffet of fascinating scientific facts, and this time his table overflows with information about the Amazon's wildlife and, even more intriguingly, its plant life, long used by natives as medicine and now studied by medical ethnobotanists. Elkins, generous with background, is a bit too generous with setup: by the time Professor Oliver and the research botanists actually get to the Amazon, readers may be tired of the overly long, and-then-there-were-none-style introductions to each character. Once underway on the Amazon, however, things quickly pick up, as a shrunken head, carried by a spear, lands on deck, and Oliver's detective skills are called into play when one of the botanists is murdered. Learned and entertaining. Connie Fletcher
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0425222500
• ISBN 13: 9780425222508
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272