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A Plague of Kinfolks
Celestine Sibley
其他書名
A Kate Mulcay Mystery
出版HarperCollins, 1995
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / Women SleuthsFiction / WomenFiction / Southern
ISBN00601770479780060177041
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=K-3OKXdF648C&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋One fine summer afternoon, while Kate Mulcay is pruning her favorite New Dawn rose and relishing a quiet day off from the newspaper, her telephone rings and pulls her out of the backyard and into her log cabin. The caller insists that he's a cousin on her late husband's side, and although she's never met him Kate can't argue. Nor can she do anything but invite him over when he tells her he and his wife are passing through Atlanta at that very moment. When Edge and Bambi Green arrive at Kate's doorstep, they're riding in a wrecker with their broken-down, rusted Chevrolet in tow, and lots of suitcases. Their twelve-year-old son is soon to arrive, and, as Kate quickly discovers, they have nowhere else to go even if they had a way to get there. But Kate doesn't have long to worry about what to feed her unexpected guests for dinner. She learns that a dear old gentleman who lives nearby has taken refuge in the woods after his niece drove him out of his own house, and she promptly heads out with her old friend Miss Willie to conduct a search. Barely finding time to go to work amid all the unexpected developments in her usually quiet life, Kate is pushed to her limits when a dead housewife turns up in the fountain in the subdevelopment across the road from her house, and she becomes a murder suspect. Once again Kate must come to her own rescue, and everyone else's, and set everything straight in this charming, tenderhearted fourth Kate Mulcay mystery that embodies all the qualities that have made Celestine Sibley one of the South's most cherished writers.