Murder In The Charleston Manner - Softcover

Patricia Houck Sprinkle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373261195 ISBN 13: 9780373261192

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 1993

Synopsis

Sent by her aunt to Charleston to investigate some mysterious accidents occurring at the home of Aunt Mary's childhood friends, Sheila Travis travels right into the midst of a murder. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Patricia Houck Sprinkle studied English at Vassar College, spent a winter writing in the Scottish Highlands, and then moved to Atlanta to begin her writing career. She lives in Atlanta.

From Publishers Weekly:

In her second appearance, following Murder at Markham , Chicago-based Sheila Travis, visits her Aunt Mary in Atlanta. She is bullied into helping invalid Dolly Langdon, Mary's old friend who's worried about a series of accidents affecting her venerable Charleston family, whose members include her antique-dealer sister and two college-student granddaughters. Soon after Sheila arrives at Dolly's ancestral home in Charleston, the heirloom silver and Bible are stolen, followed by the death of Dolly's nurse, Francine Jenkins, whom many of Dolly's relatives had good reason to dislike. The brutal murder of a next-door neighbor involves the police; then Sheila is abducted; and Aunt Mary must take matters in hand before the killer is confronted. Sprinkle writes engagingly of Charleston, its mores and the proud, appealing family, but her mystery creaks in spots, with Aunt Mary adding little but unnecessary complications and a decidedly irritating personality.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0373261195
• ISBN 13: 9780373261192
• Binding: Paperback