Pretty Is as Pretty Dies
By Elizabeth Spann Craig; Elizabeth Spann Craig
(Midnight Ink, Paperback, 9780738714806, 216pp.)
Publication Date: August 2009
Other Editions of This Title: Large Print (December 2009)
Categories: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
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No one in Bradley, North Carolina, is exactly crying into their sweet tea over the murder of Parke Stockard. Certainly not retired schoolteacher Myrtle Clover. Upon discovering the corpse, Myrtle is struck-not with grief, but a brilliant idea Solving the crime would prove to everyone (especially her son Red, the police chief) that this eighty-something-year-old is not ready to be put out to pasture just yet.
The victim, a pretty but pushy town developer, had deep pockets and few friends. Myrtle can't throw one of her gaudy garden gnomes without hitting a potential suspect. Even when another murder takes place, proud Myrtle forges on, armed only with a heavy cane, a venomous tongue, and a widower sidekick.
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