The Man in the Gray Duster - Couverture souple

Kay, Fenton R

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798989897124

Editeur : Borderlands Media, 2024

Synopsis

Carol Montgomery and husband Lyle Parnassus, have just returned from Morocco. Carol was part of a team consisting of engineering specialists sent to assist the Moroccan government in rehabilitating ancient historical buildings damaged by a monumental earthquake, while Lyle got hooked up with a team of historians and ancient manuscript specialists looking for prayers written by Mohammed himself. With the help of an old Moroccan witch, they were able to find the parchment pages within a niche in a quake-damaged mosque. Although they were certain that the manuscript had been turned over to the Moroccan government, it had disappeared and Lyle is quickly accused of stealing it.

All the while, Carol is contracted in supervising the shoring up of a historic Las Cruces house. A graduate student doing a historic study of the house discovers that there may be a baby buried under the fireplace, the very place where children of the current and previous owners have reported seeing a man in a gray duster and hat standing before. Coincidentally, the new owner happens to be an immigrant from Morocco.

Finding themselves followed by strangers that look like CIA spooks, Lyle returns to Morocco to prove his innocence while Carol stays home to oversee the excavation of the fireplace, alongside the graduate student that discovers the story of the buried baby.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fenton is a retired biologist whose writing includes eight prior novels, twenty-two publications in the scientific literature, and several poems published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal and online at Eskimo Pie. Fenton lives with his wife, two grandsons, four dogs, five aquaria, a red-eared slider turtle with his own pond, and eight cats. He enjoys watching Nature and NOVA on PBS and sitting under the gazebo in his backyard, watching the birds, butterflies, moths, and bees on the flowers. "The Man in the Gray Duster" is the fourth installment of Fenton's Carol Montgomery Mystery Series and the first to be published with Las Cruces based company Borderlands Media.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Borderlands Media
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798989897124
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible