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The Old Buzzard Had it Coming
Donis Casey
其他書名
An Alafair Tucker Mystery
出版Poisoned Pen Press, 2011-05-27
主題Fiction / Mystery & Detective / GeneralFiction / Mystery & Detective / Women SleuthsFiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical
ISBN15905814909781590581490
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=X8LywAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear head. She’s also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, when Harley’s body is discovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she isn’t surprised that his long-suffering family isn’t, if not actually celebrating, much grieving. When Alafair helps Harley’s wife prepare the body for burial, she discovers that Harley’s demise was anything but natural—there is a bullet lodged behind his ear. Alafair is concerned when she hears that Harley’s son, John Lee, is the prime suspect in his father’s murder, for Alafair’s seventeen-year-old daughter Phoebe is in love with the boy. At first, Alafair’s only fear is that Phoebe is in for a broken heart, but as she begins to unravel the events that led to Harley’s death, she discovers that Phoebe might be more than just John Lee’s sweetheart: she may be his accomplice in murder.