A Plain Vanilla Murder
Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Format: Large Print
Edition: Large Print edition.
Description: 437 pages ; 23 cm.
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"
Series: Albert, Susan Wittig. China Bayles mysteries.
Subjects:
Bayles, China (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Herbalists -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Texas -- Fiction.
College stories.
Large type books.
Bayles, China (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Herbalists -- Fiction.
Women detectives -- Texas -- Fiction.
College stories.
Large type books.
ISBN:
9781432865290
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LPM Albert | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Large Print Mystery | In |
LPM Albert | Wheatley (Shandon) | Large Print Mystery | In |