A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery by Joan Hess Paperback Book

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Rent A Conventional Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery

Author: Joan Hess

Format: Mass Market Paperback

Publisher: St Martins Pr

Published: Aug 2001

Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths

Retail Price: $6.99

Pages: 304

Synopsis

Farberville, Arkansas, is playing host to its first-ever mystery convention with five major mystery writers-each representing a different subgenre of the mystery world-making the trek to the local college for 'Murder Comes to Campus.' Bookseller Claire Malloy is looking forward to meeting some of her favorite writers and, of course, selling books to the attendees. But her plans for a calm, profitable weekend are soon laid to waste when the organizer is hospitalized and Claire is dragooned into running the show. Finding herself in the midst of barely controlled chaos, Claire has to deal with five writers, each with a distinct set of idiosyncrasies and difficulties (including one who arrives with Wimple, her crime-solving cat, in tow). With Claire's own love-life woes with local police detective Peter Rosen added in, things have never been worse...until things get worse. One of the conference attendees dies in a car accident, Wimple the cat disappears from Claire's home and cannot be located, and Roxanne Small is nowhere to be found-making it evident that in Farberville the murder mystery is more than a literary genre.AUTHORBIO: JOAN HESS is a winner of the American Mystery Award and the author of twelve previous Claire Malloy books, including Dear Miss Demeanor and Strangled Prose, as well as the Maggody mystery series. A member of Sisters in Crime and a former president of the American Crime Writers League, she lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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