FREE: Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 1) [Mass Market Paperback Book]

The listing, Strangled Prose (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 1) [Mass Market Paperback Book] has ended.

ISBN-10: 0345340590.

Joan Hess enlivens her mystery with humor and the bumptious doings of narrator Claire Malloy's daughter Caron. A widow, Claire supports herself and 14-year-old Caron by running a college-town bookstore, where Mildred Twiller insists the reception for her new lurid romance be held. Mildred's husband, Prof. Douglas Twiller, revels in the fortune his wife earns under the pen name Azalea Twilight. But when guests at the party hear themselves libeled in excerpts from the novel, Douglas is aghast and Mildred/Azalea goes home in tears. Later she's found strangled, and Douglas endures grilling by detective Pete Rosen, until the professor is strangled too. Rosen then turns the inquisition onto Claire (whose late husband is accused in the novel of philandery) and onto some of the other people in academe.

This mass market paperback is in Good condition with a spine slant and minor wear.

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