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'A clever, colourful page-turner, not to be missed... - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 'The sleuthing chores are handled with crisp intelligence and earthy wit by Callahan Garrity.' - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW When Callahan Garrity, cleaning-lady-cum-sleuth, and her eccentric employees clean the mansion of antiques dealer Elliot Littlefield, they stumble across a dead teenage girl. What they don't find - because it has been stolen - is the valuable diary of Civil War prostitute Lula Belle Bird. Littlefield is convinced that the diary's theft is connected with the girl's murder, and he hires Callahan to find the truth. But Callahan is not so sure, particularly as Littlefield killed another girl twenty years ago. She is further confused when she uncovers shady goings-on at the slain girl's Catholic high school...
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About the Author:
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Kathy Hogan Trocheck is the author of ten critically acclaimed mysteries, including the Callahan Garrity mystery series. A former reporter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, she is also the author of Little Bitty Lies and the Edgar®- and Macavity-nominated Savannah Blues, under the name Mary Kay Andrews.
While some mannerly mysteries call for a cup of tea and a plate of scones, Trocheck's Georgia-based tale suggests iced coffee and cornbread. The second appearance of sleuth Callahan Garrity, a 34-year-old former policewoman who runs the "House Mouse" cleaning service, offers the smooth writing and feisty characters introduced in the notable Every Crooked Nanny . While sprucing up the messy mansion of racist Civil War buff Elliott Littlefield, Callahan's cleaners find the bloody corpse of a 17-year-old girl. Although a similar homicide occurred in his home 20 years earlier, Littlefield maintains his innocence, insisting that the killer also stole the valuable diary of a Civil War madam. Hired by Littlefield to investigate the robbery, Callahan plainly itches to implicate her Rebel-loving employer in the murder. Callahan's detective pursuits merge seamlessly with details of her home-based relationships with her nosy mother and steady beau, with attention also given to Callahan's earlier bout with breast cancer and a teenage character's bulimia. Even though the roster of eccentric House Mouse employees is less involved than before, other memorable Southern personalities and on-target dialogue lift this appealing whodunit well above the norm.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherUlverscroft
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 070893837X
- ISBN 13 9780708938379
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages496
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