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Minotaur Books
October 2014
On Sale: September 30, 2014
Featuring: Mr. O’Nelligan; Lee Plunkett
320 pages ISBN: 1250017408 EAN: 9781250017406 Kindle: B00IWUI5MA Hardcover / e-Book
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The Seance Society introduced mystery lovers to Mr.
O’Nelligan and Lee Plunkett, an unlikely pair of sleuths on
an equally unlikely case with a supernatural twist. Having taken over his father's PI business, Lee enlists
O'Nelligan, a dapper Irishman with a flair for solving
mysteries, to help catch a killer. Now, in Michael
Nethercott's The Haunting Ballad, this sleuthing "odd
couple" are back in another witty, charming, and wonderfully
written mystery, this time set in 1957 in the burgeoning
music scene of New York City's Greenwich Village.
It's the spring of 1957, and O'Nelligan and Plunkett are
summoned to New York to investigate the death of a
controversial folk song collector. The trail leads the pair
to a diverse group of suspects including an eccentric Beat
coffee house owner, a family of Irish balladeers (who may be
IRA), a bluesy ex-con, a hundred-and-five-year-old Civil
War drummer boy, and a self-proclaimed “ghost chanter” who
sings songs that she receives from the dead. To complicate matters, there's a handsome, smooth-talking
young folk singer who Lee's fiancée Audrey is enthralled by.
And somewhere in the Bohemian swirl of the Village, a killer
waits...
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