Time Expired (Jill Smith Mystery) - Softcover

Dunlap, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440216834 ISBN 13: 9780440216834

Publisher: Dell Publishing, 1994

Synopsis

It was part street theater, part civil  disobedience, and pure Berkeley: Someone was waging  guerrilla warfare on the city's meter maids and their  beloved parking meters. But when the prankster took  detective Jill Smith and her colleagues on a wild  chase into a deep, overgrown ravine, the game led  to murder. The dead woman was Madeleine Riordan.  A firebrand attorney who was not above an act of  civil disobedience herself, Madeleine spent her  last days in a nursing home that was perched on the  edge of a ravine. Praying into the extraordinary  life and times of Madeleine Riordan, Jill  discovered a strange connection between the meter capers  and the frail, cancer stricken woman who had once  been an unyielding defender of individual liberties.  And then Jill found something else: a crime  Madelene had witnessed, and died trying to stop. .  .

About this title

From the Back Cover

"Tense, surprising. . .adroitly plotted. . . .One of the author's best best!"--Kirkus Review.

"Ms. Dunlap takes an affectionate view of the iconoclastic Berkeley's counter-culture."--The New York Times Book Review

From the Inside Flap

street theater, part civil disobedience, and pure Berkeley: Someone was waging guerrilla warfare on the city's meter maids and their beloved parking meters. But when the prankster took detective Jill Smith and her colleagues on a wild chase into a deep, overgrown ravine, the game led to murder. The dead woman was Madeleine Riordan. A firebrand attorney who was not above an act of civil disobedience herself, Madeleine spent her last days in a nursing home that was perched on the edge of a ravine. Praying into the extraordinary life and times of Madeleine Riordan, Jill discovered a strange connection between the meter capers and the frail, cancer stricken woman who had once been an unyielding defender of individual liberties. And then Jill found something else: a crime Madelene had witnessed, and died trying to stop. .

Edition details

• Publisher: Dell Publishing
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440216834
• ISBN 13: 9780440216834
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 304