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Title Statement | Murder is in the air / Frances Brody. |
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Series | Kate Shackleton mystery |
Author | Brody, Frances |
Publication | New York: Crooked Lane,2020. |
Edition | First North American edition. |
Extent of Item | 316 pages ; |
ISBN | 1643854666 9781643854663 |
Other Number | 3838951 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | North Yorkshire, 1930. It's the season for warm and spirited countryside celebrations. Ever since the war, pubs have been in the doldrums, and in an attempt to promote and breathe new life back into the business, brewers select a charismatic employee as local queen--to be the face of their industry. And this year's queen, wages clerk Ruth Parnaby, has invited the ever intrepid Kate Shackleton and her niece Harriet to accompany her on public engagements at a garden party thrown in her honor. But when Ruth leads children to the stables for pony rides, the drayman is missing, later found in the last place imaginable--the fermentation room, deceased. What looked to be a simple case of asphyxiation in the dangerous fermentation room is quickly clarified by the pathologist as murder--the drayman was already dead before he was taken into the room. Someone was looking to cover it up. The horse dealer who sold the pony to the drayman comes under suspicion, but more and more Ruth's nasty father, Slater Parnaby's strong motive to dissuade his daughter from any festivities lingers in Kate's mind, despite his having an alibi. The case is muddy, at best, and it's going to take Kate at her keenest to decipher the truth. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Women private investigators--Fiction--England--Yorkshire |
Murder--Fiction--Investigation | |
Breweries--Fiction--England | |
Beauty contestants--Fiction | |
Nineteen thirties--Fiction | |
By Name | Shackleton, Kate |
By Location | Yorkshire (England)--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Historical fiction |