Dead man's bones [electronic resource]

• Tác giả: Susan Wittig Albert
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1440621918
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 813.54 American fiction in English
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2005.
• Mô tả vật lý: 291 p. ; , 18 cm.
• Bộ sưu tập: Văn học
• ID: 91449
• Chủ đề: 1. Bayles, China (Fictitious character); 2. Community theater; 3. Herbalists; 4. Murder; 5. Mystery fiction; 6. Spelunkers; 7. Texas; 8. Women detectives--Texas

Tóm tắt

A dead man's bones are uncovered -- and Texas ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles must dig into a pair of murders separated by time but connected by motive ... When China's teenage son finds some skeletal remains during a local cave dig -- remains that show a not-so-accidental death -- it's a disturbing development. But China doesn't let it distract her from the opening of the new community theater donated by the elderly Obermann sisters. Unfortunately, the haughty, bullying Jane Obermann -- and her frail, frightened younger sister -- made the donation with a condition: that the first production be a play written by Jane about their aristocratic family history. The premiere party ends with a bang when a ne'er-do-well local handyman is shot dead by Jane while breaking into the Obermann estate. It seems like a clear-cut case of self-defense. But China senses something else going on behind the scenes. Now, the key to catching a killer might be the mysterious bones in the cave -- a clue from the past that could help China solve a mystery in the present.