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When sixty-eight-year-old newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls discovers that her old college friend, archaelogist Gordon Sweet, has been found murdered at the abandoned landfill that is the site of his latest dig, she sets out to uncover the truth about the killing, which may be linked to the bludgeoning death of state wrestling champion David Delarosa a half century earlier.
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When an old college friend is murdered, shot in the head at a landfill, 68-year-old librarian Maddy Sprowls is willing to work overtime to help the police discover the culprit in Corwin's winning second cozy to feature the head of the Hannawa (Ohio) Herald-Union's "morgue" (after 2003's Morgue Mama: The Cross Kisses Back). Digging in the newspaper's files, Maddy uncovers a decades-old unsolved murder that took place during her student days and wonders if the two crimes could be connected. A game old bird battling loneliness and the prospect of retirement, she has a tendency to digress about local landmarks and such trivia as how to make her favorite sandwich. But once Maddy starts to put the pieces of the puzzle together, the plot picks up and builds to an exciting and fitting conclusion.
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Maddy Sprowls, otherwise known (but never within hearing distance) as Morgue Mama, gets a shock when she settles in at her desk at the Hannawa Herald-Union one Monday morning. She reads the obituary of an old friend. Gordon Sweet, an archaeology professor, was shot through the head. Determined to find out who killed her friend, Maddy, the head librarian at the Herald-Union, stumbles on evidence that Sweet's murder might be connected to another murder that happened half a century ago. The third Maddy Sprowls mystery is, like the previous two, solidly plotted. But it's not the story that keeps us going; it's Maddy herself, a charming, curmudgeonly 68-year-old who is less Miss Marple and more television's Lou Grant (adjusted for age and gender differences). If future Morgue Mama adventures are as fun as this one, the series could be in for a long run. David Pitt
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Hardback. Condition: Good. Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union right at nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today. First she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murderedat the abandoned landfill where the eccentric archaeology professor was conducting his latest dig.And just like that, the cranky 68-year-old newspaper librarian finds herself investigating another murder. No, two murders Gordon's death just might be linked to the grisly bludgeoning of state wrestling champ David Delarosa fifty years earlier.And so begins a harrowing, and hilarious, trek back to Maddy's old beatnik days, when she was a member of the Meriwether Square Baked Bean Existentialist Society. There's a coffee house full of quirky suspects to consider: Poet Chick Glass, saxophonist Shaka Bop, free-thinking Effie Fredmansky, snooty Gwen Moffitt-Stumpf, and toxic waste dumper Kenneth Kingzette, just to name a few. And, oh yes, the legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac figures into this satisfying caper, too.There's a reason why reporters call Maddy Morgue Mama behind her back. And why cops and criminals alike get the jitters when she pulls up in her old Dodge Shadow. She is tough, tenacious, and as readers of C.R. Corwin's Morgue Mama: The Cross Kisses Back discovered, tricky as the dickens. Seller Inventory # 00106344493
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