Ladybug, Ladybug: A Hometown Heroes Mystery - Hardcover

McShea, Susanna Hofmann

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312110170 ISBN 13: 9780312110178

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

Synopsis

The Hometown Heroes, four aged detectives from Raven's Wing, Connecticut, return to look into the mysterious death of a charming young man who left Yale to study for the priesthood at a small college

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The latest case for the Hometown Heroes of Raven's Wing, Conn., lands the quartet of senior-citizen sleuths in a series of tragic, unpredictable murders. Dr. Trevor Bradford asks fellow Hero, Mildred Bennett, to visit a distraught patient whose oldest son, a seminarian, has just died, apparently of autoerotic asphyxiation. Louise Cannivan tells Mildred about a phone call she received suggesting that her son's death was murder and asks the Heroes to investigate. Reluctantly they agree and visit the seminary where the dead boy roomed with the Heroes' protege, Cameron Maine (seen in The Pumpkin-Shell Wife ) . Beginning with this slender thread, McShea weaves an intricate mystery involving a disillusioned priest, an angry father, a blind veteran firefighter and the Heroes in escalating homicide before the pattern is completed. Readers may quibble over the tenuous connection between the group and their latest "client," but McShea's direct style and her engaging, never-cute and often sharply eccentric characters quickly prevail.
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The Hometown Heroes, four shrewd senior citizens with a flair for sleuthing, become entangled in another disquieting adventure. When Kevin Cannivan, a gifted and popular college freshman, apparently commits suicide, his incredulous mother suspects foul play and enlists the services of Trevor Bradford, Mildred Bennett, Forrest Haggarty, and Irene Purdy. Because the bizarre circumstances surrounding Kevin's death had disturbing psychosexual overtones, Father Francis Duffy, president of St. Sebastian's Catholic College and Seminary, is anxious to shroud any hint of scandal. Despite a series of dangerous obstacles deliberately laid in their path, the dauntless detectives persevere in their investigation, uncovering an unwholesome and macabre motive for murder. McShea does an excellent job of providing a delicate balance between folksy humor and menacing mayhem. Margaret Flanagan

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312110170
• ISBN 13: 9780312110178
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311