A Myrtle Clover Mystery
Midnight Ink
August 2009
On Sale: August 1, 2009
Featuring: Myrtle Clover
216 pages ISBN: 0738714801 EAN: 9780738714806 Paperback Add to Wish List
No one in Bradley, North Carolina, is exactly crying into their sweet tea over the murder of Parke Stockard. Certainly not retired schoolteacher Myrtle Clover. Upon discovering the corpse, Myrtle is struckβnot with grief, but a brilliant idea! Solving the murder would prove to everyoneβespecially her son Red, the police chiefβthat this eighty-something-year-old is still as sharp as a tack. Heck, going from crosswords to crime investigations isn't such a stretch. The old biddies of Bradley can waste away in blissful stagnation, but Myrtle's not ready to be put out to pasture just yet. The victim, a pretty but pushy town developer, had deep pockets and few friends. Myrtle can't throw one of her gaudy garden gnomes without hitting a potential suspect. Even when another murder takes place, proud Myrtle forges onβarmed only with a heavy cane, a venomous tongue, and a widower sidekick. Like her characters, Elizabeth Spann Craig's (Matthews, North Carolina) roots are in a small, Southern town. She grew up in Anderson, South Carolina. Β
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