Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma: An Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery - Couverture souple

Verburg, CJ

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0991664590 ISBN 13 : 9780991664597

Editeur : Boom-Books, 2021

Synopsis

400 years after the "First Thanksgiving," a business lunch for leaders of GreenHome LLC and the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe leads to murder. Or does it? Stopping at a yard sale on their way to Leo's Back End, property developer Harriet Benbow beat out two of her fellow guests in a squabble over a silver Art Deco toastrack. The next morning she's found dead. Payback? A burglary gone wrong? A violent protest against GreenHome's plan to build luxury condos on an indigenous burial ground?

Detective Pete Altman wonders: What kind of perp would cut up the victim's scalp? Back End soup-chef Lydia Vivaldi and Wampanoag pastry chef Mudge Miles wonder: Is somebody trying to frame the Indians? Reclusive artist-author Edgar Rowdey, who's busy plotting his own mystery for Golden Age magazine, wonders: Where on earth does an antique toastrack fit in?

In this picturesque seaside village, solving a crime takes collaboration. Quansett is too diverse for everyone to like each other -- natives and wash-ashores, fishermen and artists, Irish, Brazilian, English, Cape Verdean, Wampanoag, African-Americans -- but it's so small that everyone has to get along. This brutal attack threatens to shatter their community. Lydia hopes it won't also sink her catering start-up with Mudge. With the grapevine buzzing, and the police slogging through mismatched clues, suspects, lies, and betrayals, she's afraid not even the Back End's amateur sleuths can untangle this one in time to stop the killer.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

CJ Verburg writes contemporary mystery novels and stories in the Golden Age tradition. Shafted, or The Toastrack Enigma is #3 in her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod series (Croaked, Zapped), instigated by her artist friend and fellow Agatha Christie fan Edward Gorey. The linked short story "A Terrible Tragedy" appears in Malice Domestic's 2021 anthology Mystery Most Diabolical. CJ's Cory Goodwin series follows the Boston journalist daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin on adventures from the noir side of publishing to a musical mystery tour of EuroDisney.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Boom-Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0991664590
• ISBN 13: 9780991664597
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg