
The Corpse with the Platinum Hair 2nd Edition
2nd Edition
Cathy Ace(Author)
Four Tails Publishing Ltd.
2nd Edition
Published on 7. April 2025
Book
Hardback
254 pages
978-1-990550-40-9 (ISBN)
Description
"Look - someone's skewered Miss Shirley to her seat with a silver saber!"Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan is taking a short break at the fabulousTsar! Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas with her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson. But before they can finish celebrating Bud's birthday in style at the casino owners' exclusive private dining room, the death of Miss Shirley - a woman with a colorful background, and the acknowledged Queen of the Strip - results in a security lockdown.Cait, Bud, a corpse, and ten possible murderers are trapped in the luxurious restaurant for twelve deadly hours. The bodies pile up, the tension mounts, the list of suspects dwindles...and Cait knows she has to work out who within the group is an audacious killer because there's no telling who might be next to die.A delight for those who enjoy a tale reminiscent of "And Then There Were None", while reveling the variety of characters encountered in today's Vegas.This is the SECOND EDITION of the fourth book in the Cait Morgan Mysteries, an award-winning classic whodunit series featuring the gifted Professor Cait Morgan.
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Series
Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
494 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-990550-40-9 (9781990550409)
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Cathy Ace's Cait Morgan Mysteries feature a criminal psychologist sleuth encountering traditional whodunits around the world (optioned for TV); her WISE Enquiries Agency Mysteries feature a quartet of soft-boiled female PIs solving cosy cases from a Welsh stately home. Her Welsh suspense novel, The Wrong Boy, has also been optioned for TV. Shortlisted for Canada's Bony Blithe Award three times, winning once, she's also won IPPY and IBA Awards; her work's been twice shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada Awards of Excellence, and the CrimeFictionLover Best Indie Novel. She migrated from Wales aged 40, and now lives in Canada.