A Bad Day for Scandal: A Crime Novel
by Littlefield, Sophie
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0312648375
- ISBN 13
- 9780312648374
- Seller
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Georgetown, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Minotaur Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 304 pages. A Stella Hardesty Mystery, No. 3. When Prosper homegirl turned big-city businesswoman Priss Porter returns to town with a body in her trunk, she calls Stella Hardesty to dispose of it. Her uppity ways dont convince Stella to take the job, and Priss attempts to blackmail her with a snapshot of Stella doing what she does best: curing woman-beaters by the use of force. Stella refuses to cooperate and goes home, only to hear later that Priss and her brother, Liman, have gone missing after calling in a disturbance. Stella is implicated when Sheriff Goat Jones discovers the scarf she left behind at the house. He warns her to stay local but Stella and her partner, Chrissy Shaw, go looking for Priss in Kansas City, where they discover that she runs an unusual business. When Priss herselfalong with two other bodiesturns up in a pond belonging to one of Stellas ex-clients, Stella must investigate a host of suspects, including a crooked but libidinous female judge, a coterie of jealous male escorts, and a Marxist ex-professor. <I>A Bad Day for Scandal </I>is the third in Sophie Littlefields award-winning, critically acclaimed series. Written with passion, humor, and guts, this is a mystery to be savored. .
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 606307
- Title
- A Bad Day for Scandal: A Crime Novel
- Author
- Littlefield, Sophie
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0312648375
- ISBN 13
- 9780312648374
- Publisher
- Minotaur Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, WOMEN SLEUTHS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective / Women Sleuths;
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