Trail of Murder - Hardcover

Andreae, Christine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312083270 ISBN 13: 9780312083274

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1992

Synopsis

Out west to help out a friend as a replacement cook on a trail ride across the Continental Divide, English professor and poet Lee Squires becomes caught up in the deadly squabbles of the Strand family

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

A spellbinding plot, a valiant heroine and a majestic setting make this debut hard to put down. Lee Squires, a divorced English teacher and poet who is at loose ends, signs on as cook when wealthy Cyrus Strand takes his family and his lawyer on a horseback trip through Montana's Bob Marshall Wilderness. The trip seems jinxed from the first day, when Strand's model-handsome adopted son Henry and his horse survive a 100-foot fall off the trail. Although shaken, the party continues, their squabbles increasing in proportion to their distance from civilization. After Cyrus is thrown from his horse, Lee discovers that a strap on his saddle had been cut. Then the pack mules are spooked and disperse, and Lee is left with the family while the guides undertake a search. Cyrus announces he has written a new will that leaves all his estate to his current, third wife; that afternoon he is fatally poisoned, and everyone scrambles to find the document. When another murder is committed, Lee realizes she must flush out the killer if they hope to get out of the wilderness alive. This treacherous journey offers thrills to armchair adventurers and wilderness buffs as well as mystery fans.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312083270
• ISBN 13: 9780312083274
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227