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Rent Alpine Advocate (Emma Lord Mysteries)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Oct 1992
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - General
Retail Price: $7.99
Pages: 240
Synopsis
The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series.brAfter a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really needs for her paper, though, is a big story. And she gets it--when handsome Mark Doukas, grandson of rich, old Neeny Doukas is murdered. Emma discovers that trying to get straight answers out of Neeny and his thin-lipped son is like poking a nest of sleeping rattlesnakes. What begins with an innocent story about the murdered man, ends with Emma conducting the most interesting, and probably the last, interview of her career from the wrong end of a .38....
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