The Alpine Scandal - An Emma Lord Mystery

Zusatztext Praise for Mary Daheim and her Emma Lord mysteries “If you like the Cat Who mysteries by Lilian Jackson Braun! you’ll find similar fun here.” –San Antonio Express-News “Mary Daheim writes with wit! wisdom! and a big heart. I love her books.” –Carolyn Hart “Recommended . . . If you like cozy mysteries! you need to try Daheim’s Alpine series.” –The Snooper “Daheim writes . . . with dry wit! a butter-smooth style! and obvious wicked enjoyment.” –The Oregonian “The characters are great! and the plots always attention-getting.” –King Features Syndicate “Witty one-liners and amusing characterizations.” –Publishers Weekly From the Hardcover edition. Informationen zum Autor Mary Daheim Klappentext Welcome to mystery lovers' favorite destination: Alpine, Washington, Mary Daheim's picturesque old logging town in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. From the Venison Inn to the Upper Crust Bakery, Front Street is jumping-and the nerve center of the community is the office of The Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord's weekly newspaper, which keeps folks up to speed on everything from joyous weddings to sudden, violent death. THE ALPINE SCANDAL It's a quiet morning at the Advocate until the mail brings shocking news: a formal obituary for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As far as anyone knows, Elmer is alive and well. But he hasn't turned up for work, so Emma and her unstoppable House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, rush to the Nystrom home, where they find Elmer's lifeless body in the henhouse, half buried under straw. Not only has he been murdered, but his obituary had been mailed before he died. Though Elmer was well liked by everyone, the same cannot be said of his standoffish wife or his son, the town's new orthodontist. Rumors fly-straight into the office of the Advocate. Why did Dr. Nystrom's new receptionist resign at the end of her first day? Why are the Nystroms' neighbors so close-mouthed? Who mailed that prophetic obituary? With Sheriff Milo Dodge in the hospital, it's up to Emma and Vida to get to the bottom of the tragedy. Alpiners love scandal, and with Elmer's murder, they'll get their fill. The Alpine Scandal, number nineteen in this bestselling series, is as suspenseful and charming as its predecessors, a delicious look into the life of a small town where all inhabitants know one another-just not as well as they thought. Leseprobe ONE Ed Bronsky was leaving a strange trail behind him on Alpine's grapevine. The Alpine Advocate's former ad manager was creating a stir with his unusual behavior. He'd been spotted at the Grocery Basket stuffing bananas in his raincoat pocket, at Cal Vickers's Texaco station putting only three gallons of gas into his Mercedes, and leaving the Burger Barn without paying for his double deluxe bacon cheeseburger with extra fries. Indeed, I had noticed him in church at St. Mildred's dropping coins into the collection basket instead of waving a check with his usual flourish. My House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, was sorely tempted to put some of those occurrences into her weekly gossip column, "Scene Around Town," but even she felt there might be something seriously wrong with Ed. Many years earlier, he'd quit his job at the Advocate after inheriting a pile of money from an aunt. Ever since then he and his wife, Shirley, and their five children had lived the high life--or as high as you can get in Alpine, with its four thousand residents living in semi-isolation eight miles from the Stevens Pass summit. I was about to discover the answer. Ed had wedged himself into one of my two visitors' chairs on this first Monday morning in January. He looked more pugnacious than crazy. "I want my old job back," he said without any preamble. I was aghast. "What?" Ed nodded once, his three chins settling into h...

Product details

• Authors: Mary Daheim
• Publisher: Ballantine
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780345468178
• ISBN: 978-0-345-46817-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 107 mm x 175 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Emma Lord; Emma Lord; Emma Lord Mysteries (Paperback
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense