Murder On High (A Charlotte Graham Mystery) - Hardcover

Matteson, Stefanie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425143554 ISBN 13: 9780425143551

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 1994

Synopsis

Former movie star and amateur sleuth Charlotte Graham returns in a strange case involving the death of Iris O'Connor, a screenwriter in the forties, who left Hollywood when the House Un-American Affairs Committee began its investigations

About this title

About the Author:

Prior to becoming a mystery writer, Stefanie Matteson was the editor of the Penobscot Times in Old Town, Maine and the assistant lifestyle editor at the Bergen Record in Hackensack, New Jersey. She lives in Montclair, New Jersey with her two children.

From Publishers Weekly:

Seventyish Charlotte Graham, actress, sometime sleuth and summer resident of Old Town, Maine, helps her friend, state police Lt. Howard Tracey, solve the murder of Iris Richards, shot by an arrow while climbing Mt. Katahdin. The victim was a crusty recovered alcoholic and Thoreau disciple who shared a house and wildflower nursery in Old Town with companion Jeanne Ouellette. Charlotte soon discovers that the dead woman was also Iris O'Connor, an Oscar-winning screenwriter of the '40s and '50s whose work had provided Charlotte with some of her best roles. While Tracey explores Iris's local connections, Charlotte flies to Hollywood, where a look back to the turbulent years of red-baiting and blacklisting uncovers events that changed Iris's life. As Charlotte reviews those years and her torrid affair with a blacklisted cowboy star, light shines on the present-day murder, sending the actress back to Maine to find the solution. Although well-plotted, the pace of the sixth Charlotte Graham mystery, following Murder at the Falls, is burdened by wordy prose, an oversized red herring and more Thoreauvian and mountaineering lore than many mystery readers may appreciate.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0425143554
• ISBN 13: 9780425143551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244