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Bones to Pick - Hardcover

North, Suzanne

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9780771068010: Bones to Pick
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0771068018 ISBN 13: 9780771068010
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2002

Synopsis

Against her good judgement, Phoebe Fairfax, Canada’s most reluctant sleuth, is once again embroiled in a hilarious mystery, this time involving old bones, overwhelming conceit, unrequited love – and murder. Phoebe is on her way to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta to interview the great paleoanthropologist Dr. Graham Maxwell at the start of his world tour to exhibit his latest find – ossils that he claims are startling evidence of a whole new hominoid species, one that apparently appreciated and played music.

But not everyone thinks Maxwell is right. When Phoebe finds Maxwell’s dead body in the museum the morning after the exhibition’s launch and the fossils themselves go missing, she realizes she was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. As much as she’d like to leave the investigation to the police, the case won’t leave her alone, not until she discovers who hated Maxwell or his theory so passionately he or she was prepared to murder the celebrated scientist.

Also entangled in this murderous comedy are Dr. Adam Woodward, who spends his summers trying to see how far back along the evolutionary path a modern man can go and still survive; Simon Visser, who has toiled in obscurity alongside Maxwell ever since he was caught faking data for his doctoral dissertation; Gillian Collins, Maxwell’s lovestruck assistant; and Stan Darling, Maxwell’s former classmate, now a retired oil geologist and leader of the anti-Darwinist Geologists for Jesus.

Bones to Pick is a laugh-out-loud novel, peopled with some of the most likeable and eccentric characters you’ll ever meet; people thrown together by one man’s fatal ambition and another’s stubborn belief that Darwin was wrong.

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About the Author

Suzanne North was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Before she began writing mysteries, she wrote for magazines, for CBC Television, and scripted a number of documentary movies. She has also worked variously as a bibliographic searcher, a waitress, a television announcer, and a professional horse player. The Phoebe Fairfax mysteries are probably the only crime novels in Canada written on a computer purchased with the author’s race-track winnings.

Suzanne North is married to arachnologist Donald Buckle and shares her home with him and thirty thousand dead spiders.

From the Back Cover

“Charmingly funny,…Phoebe Fairfax is a welcome arrival on the mystery scene.…”
–The Mystery Review

“I’m a big fan of Suzanne North…she has a delightful sense of humour; it’s dry and it’s subtle.”
–Margaret Cannon on “The Arts Today”, CBC Radio

“Sharply entertaining and witty.”
–Joan Barfoot, The London Free Press

From the Inside Flap

Against her good judgement, Phoebe Fairfax, Canada?s most reluctant sleuth, is once again embroiled in a hilarious mystery, this time involving old bones, overwhelming conceit, unrequited love ? and murder. Phoebe is on her way to the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta to interview the great paleoanthropologist Dr. Graham Maxwell at the start of his world tour to exhibit his latest find ? ossils that he claims are startling evidence of a whole new hominoid species, one that apparently appreciated and played music.

But not everyone thinks Maxwell is right. When Phoebe finds Maxwell?s dead body in the museum the morning after the exhibition?s launch and the fossils themselves go missing, she realizes she was definitely in the wrong place at the wrong time. As much as she?d like to leave the investigation to the police, the case won?t leave her alone, not until she discovers who hated Maxwell or his theory so passionately he or she was prepared to murder the celebrated scientist.

Also entangled in this murderous comedy are Dr. Adam Woodward, who spends his summers trying to see how far back along the evolutionary path a modern man can go and still survive; Simon Visser, who has toiled in obscurity alongside Maxwell ever since he was caught faking data for his doctoral dissertation; Gillian Collins, Maxwell?s lovestruck assistant; and Stan Darling, Maxwell?s former classmate, now a retired oil geologist and leader of the anti-Darwinist Geologists for Jesus.

Bones to Pick is a laugh-out-loud novel, peopled with some of the most likeable and eccentric characters you?ll ever meet; people thrown together by one man?s fatal ambition and another?s stubborn belief that Darwin was wrong.

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Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0771068018
ISBN 13 
9780771068010
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
280
Rating
  • 3.36 out of 5 stars
    55 ratings by Goodreads