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Rent The Dead Cat Bounce: A Home Repair is Homicide Mystery (Mainely Murder, The)
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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: Feb 2004
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
Retail Price: $8.99
Pages: 336
Synopsis
dead cat bounce n. Stock market jargon for a small, temporary rise in a stocks trading price after a sharp drop.Since she bought her rambling old fixer-upper of a house, Jacobia Tiptree has gotten used to finding things broken. But her latest problem isnt so easily repaired. Along with the rotting floor joists and sagging support beams, theres the little matter of the dead man in Jakes storeroom, an ice pick firmly planted in his cranium.Not much happens in her tiny Maine town, but thats about to change. Jakes unknown guest turns out to be a world-famous corporate raider, local boy turned billionaire Threnody McIlwaine. When Jakes best friend, quiet and dependable Ellie White, readily confesses to the murder, cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport.Jake smells a cover-up, and begins poking into past history between McIlwaine and Ellies family. But someone doesnt like nosy neighbors...and Jake's rustic refuge may become her final resting place.
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