Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 1) - Hardcover

Hess, Joan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312764286 ISBN 13: 9780312764289

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1986

Synopsis

The murder of an author of a libelous novel points to Claire Malloy, the widow of a college professor and owner of a bookstore, as a prime suspect, until her teenaged daughter is implicated in the crime

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiler--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Malloy likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is found dead in her home--strangled with a tightly knotted silk scarf. Now it's up to Claire to find Mildred's killer, and it won't be easy--the two-bit author had offended nearly every faculty member she worked with at nearby Faber College. But who could have hated Mildred with such smoldering passion?

From the Inside Flap:

ght wrote some pretty torrid romances -- but that hardly seemed a reason to murder her. But Claire Molloy finds that Twilight's romances contained as much fact as fiction, and perhaps hold the clue to her killer's identity!

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0312764286
• ISBN 13: 9780312764289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 183