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Strangled Prose
The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
Dear Miss Demeanor
Roll Over and Play Dead
A Diet to Die For
A Really Cute Corpse
Death by the Light of the Moon
Poisoned Pins
A Holly, Jolly Murder
A Conventional Corpse
Out on a Limb
The Goodbye Body
 
 
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I stared curiously at what I presumed was the bird-watchers’ club. An icy finger danced up my spine as I took in their dazed expressions. A grebe could not be responsible for the strange stillness of the bird-watchers—no matter how peculiar its plumage, or idiosyncratic and public its mating habits.
After a whispered conversation with the woman, Peter came back to the croquet court to take Eric aside. The blood drained from Eric’s face as he listened, and he began to sway with a queasy motion. The game halted, and mallets were slowly discarded. We formed a circle around Eric and Peter.
Peter took a deep breath. “Apparently the Audubon people hiked around the lake early this morning to a nesting area they explore on an annual basis. In one of the coves they found a rowboat, and in the rowboat a body—face down in several inches of water. There was a bloody indentation on the back of his head, and no doubt about his condition. I’m sorry to have to tell you that Harmon Crundall is dead. But this time, it’s no game.”
 
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THE MURDER AT THE MURDER AT THE MIMOSA INN
Copyright © 1986 by Joan Hess.
 
 
St. Martin’s Paperbacks are published by St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010.
 
 
eISBN 9781466814370
First eBook Edition : February 2012
 
 
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 86-13809
ISBN: 0-312-97178-8
EAN: 80312-97178-6
St. Martin’s Paperbacks edition / October 1999

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