Ruffled Feathers (Haskell Blevins Mysteries) - Softcover

Taylor McCafferty

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0671728032 ISBN 13: 9780671728038

Publisher: Pocket, 1992

Synopsis

Private eye Haskell Blevins returns to investigate a murder involving a poultry millionaire, his curvacious daughter, and dirty double dealing. Original.

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

For private eye Haskell Blevins of Pigeon Fork, Kentucky, an anonymous threat to kidnap the daughter of poultry king Jacob Vandeventer results in a murder case. While Blevins guards daughter Priscilla, Jacob is conked on the head with a statue of a chicken, then stabbed to death. Blevins must sort through a roster of suspects, including the victim's vapid son and his affected, obnoxious wife; his tawdry widow; his spacey but sweet ex-wife; and the acid-tongued Priscilla. Although the identity of the killer is ultimately predictable, McCafferty ( Pet Peeves ) writes skillfully. Blevins's narrative voice is convincing, and she manages to avoid the trap of i've stetted/pk building humorous character solely through lumping together a bunch of idiosyncracies. The dialogue develops both plot and character; the scene where the social-climbing daughter-in-law demands proof that Jacob is dead is a virtuoso turn. McCafferty yet needs to integrate her humor with the escalationpk of tension, but she still has produced here an original comic mystery.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0671728032
• ISBN 13: 9780671728038
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224