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Sheila Connolly
Privy to the Dead
Inglese · Tascabile
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Zusatztext Praise for the Museum Mysteries: “Skillfully executed.”—Mystery Scene “Nell Pratt is exactly the kind of sleuth you want in your corner.”—Mary Jane Maffini! author of the Charlotte Adams Mysteries “[Connolly’s] stories always keep me turning pages.”— New York Times bestselling author Julie Hyzy “[An] engaging amateur sleuth filled with fascinating characters! interesting museum information! plenty of action including a nice twist! and a bit of romance.”—Genre Go Round Reviews Informationen zum Autor Sheila Connolly Klappentext In the latest Museum Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Razing the Dead ! a suspicious death has Nell Pratt down in the dumps... Nell Pratt! president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society! has something to smile about thanks to a generous donation from a major Philadelphia developer who's willing to help update their museum. But renovations have barely begun when a man is struck by a car in front of the building and killed. The victim is a construction worker who found a curious metal object while excavating an old privy in the museum's basement. Nell thinks the death is somehow connected to the Society! and her suspicions are confirmed when an antiques expert reveals a link between the objects from the cellar and a fellow staff member's family. Now Nell must unearth a mystery with ties to the past and the present. Because when someone is willing to kill over scrap metal! there's no telling what they'll do next... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1 As I looked around the long table, I realized it was the first time I had ever seen the board members of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society look happy all at once. I was tempted to take a picture, just to remind myself of the moment when darker days returned, as no doubt they would. The group had good reason to look happy. We were fully staffed, with the recent addition of a new registrar to complete the roster of management positions; we had a wealth of material to keep our staff busy cataloging for years; and we had earned the gratitude of the FBI for agreeing to sort through the bits and bobs of art and artifacts that their Philadelphia office had confiscated over the past several years. And we had just received a nice—make that a really nice—financial contribution from big-name local developer Mitchell Wakeman, who had asked me to help him smooth the path for his planned development project in the suburbs. Luckily he hadn’t blamed me when we had stumbled over a body along the way, but I’d shown him how to use the information we’d uncovered in solving the murder to strengthen the project, unlikely though it seemed. He had been appropriately grateful and had presented the Society (of which I, Nell Pratt, was president) with a pot of money, with the restriction that it must be used for physical improvements to our century-plus-old building, rather than collections or staff salaries. It was a reasonable request; he was, after all, a mogul of the construction industry, and we really did need those physical improvements. We had already moved from the planning stages to the physical preparations, and we were ready to start the construction phase. I’d been pleased that I could introduce both the project designer—Kemble and Warren, a long-established firm with an excellent track record—and the contractor for our renovations, Schuylkill Construction, which had come highly recommended by Mitchell Wakeman at the fall board meeting. I hadn’t expected any problems, and there weren’t any. The companies involved in the project had taken part in a number of similar projects for local art or collecting institutions, so the staffs there understood the challenges of working around delicate collections and finicky researchers. We wanted to accomplish t...
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Autori | Sheila Connolly |
Editore | Berkley Publishing Group |
Lingue | Inglese |
Formato | Tascabile |
Pubblicazione | 02.06.2015 |
EAN | 9780425273463 |
ISBN | 978-0-425-27346-3 |
Pagine | 304 |
Dimensioni | 107 mm x 171 mm x 20 mm |
Serie |
Museum Mystery A Museum Mystery Museum Mystery A Museum Mystery Penguin Publishing Group |
Categoria |
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