Crossing the lion
(2010)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
MYSTERY/BAXTER,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Bantam Books, [2010]
©2010
©2010
DESCRIPTION
359 pages ; 18 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780553592382 (pbk.), 0553592386 (pbk.), 9780553592382
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
For a vet turned sleuth, solving crime is a matter of animal instinct"--Cover
Veterinarian Jessica Popper is basking in newlywedded bliss when neighbors beg her to investigate the suspicious death of the "king of the corporate jungle", Linus Merrywood. On stormy Solitude Island, in Peconic Bay, off the eastern end of Long Island, Jess feels as if she has walked into an old-fashioned game of Clue: a butler named Jives, and assistant named Scarlett, teatime in the conservatory, and a house that has secret passageways, moving walls, and a wailing aunt locked in the attic