| Description |
437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print rda |
| Series |
A China Bayles mystery |
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Thorndike Press large print mystery |
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Albert, Susan Wittig.
China Bayles mysteries ; 27.
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Thorndike Press large print mystery series.
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| Summary |
China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. The series name is "A China Bayles Mystery" |
| Subject |
Large type books.
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Large type books. |
| Genre |
Mystery fiction.
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Large type books.
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Detective and mystery fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781432865290 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1432865293 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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