Four lost ladies : a Hildegarde Withers mystery
Call Number
- MYSTERY PALM (CEN)
Edition
2013 edition.
Publication Information
London : Mysterious Press.com, presented by Head of Zeus, 2013.
Physical Description
187 pages ; 23 cm.
Summary
A woman is murdered in her hotel room--and she is only the first to die. With a seven-hundred-dollar inheritance in her pocket, small town librarian Harriet Bascom went to the track. By the time she left she had thousands--enough to live life the way she had always wanted: with champagne, music, and love. The champagne and music flow freely once she arrives in New York City, but it's love that brings trouble. When she discovers her beloved has a terrible secret, she makes the mistake of being alone when she confronts him about it--and doesn't even scream when she dies. Harriet is one of the three thousand women who disappear in New York each year--the women Hildegarde Withers wants to know more about. Unhappily retired, this former elementary school teacher is hungry for action. Investigating Harriet's case--and the three other ladies who follow her into death--will provide all the action Miss Withers could ever want.