Slugfest: A Dirty Business Mystery

Minotaur Books, 2011. First Edition. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed By Author. Anthony And Agatha Award-Nominated Rosemary Harris Is Back With Her Fourth Dirty Business Mystery, Slugfest, Set At A Legendary Northeast Flower Show Where More Than The Plants Are Dying. When Paula Holliday Agrees To Act As Exhibit Manager For A Reclusive Artist She'S Expecting A Laidback Weekend Picking Up Gardening Tips. She Doesn'T Expect To Be Knee-Deep In Horticultural Sabotage, Beheaded Gnomes, Homicide, And Something Called The Javits Curse. Then An Overeager Attendee Is Found Floating In The River And Paula Realizes She Accidentally Holds A Clue To His Murder-That'S When The Garden Gloves Come Off And This Flower Show Turns Into A Real Slugfest! This Time Out Paula Is Joined By A Colorful Cast That Includes Rolanda "Fort" Knox, A No-Nonsense Security Guard; Guy Anzalone, Brooklyn's Tumbled Stone King; Jamal Harrington, A High School Kid With A Black Belt And A Green Thumb; Jc Kaufman, A Feisty Lady Who Hates Leaving Home Without Her Weapon Of Choice; And A Slick Marketing Guy Hawking The Hottest New Product At The Show, A Foolproof Pest Repellant That People Are Dying To Get Their Hands On. Pages Starting To Tan Abbbit, Otherwise In Very Nice Condition. With Limited Means And Her Ragtag Crew, Paula Must Solve Her Toughest Mystery Yet And Root Out A Killer Before She Finds Herself Pushing Up Daisies.