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The Legend of the Slain Soldiers (Paperback)
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Ciro Sisneros seems the most harmless of men-a Chicano historian
immersed in writing a book about the Great Depression and the
Mexican-American agricultural workers of that era. Then why, when
he dies of a fall at pool-side in Leisure Village Mobile Home Park,
a senior citizens' community near Santa Barbara, does Gabriel a
Oliverez insist that he has been murdered? True, Ciro had been
warned by an anony-mous caller to stop work on his book-something
he had no intention of doing. Gabriela wants her daughter, Elena,
to put aside the urgent demands of her job as curator of the Museum
of Mexican Art and find out why the book was a threat-and to whom.
Hadn't Elena solved the murder of her predecessor (in Muller's The
Tree of Death)? That's not an easy thing for Elena to do. The
museum is understaffed. Fiesta time is upon them. One of the
museum's volunteer workers suddenly disappears. There are countless
other demands on the young curator's time. And the chairman of the
museum board, Carlos Bautista, is courting her. Although she likes
him well enough, she does not welcome the attentions of a man
twenty-six years her senior, and she feels uncomfortable among his
rich Anglo friends. But how to avoid him without antagonizing him?
However, as Police Lieutenant Dave Kirk (whose attentions Elena
would welcome) says of her, she is "incurably nosy." Her nosiness,
in fact, causes more than one attempt on her life. Only by going
far back into the past-and making a visit to "Abuela" (Grandmother)
Felicia, who had been active in the agricultural workers' struggles
of the thirties-does Elena learn the truth behind the legend of the
slain soldiers and how it ties in with the very recent death of
Ciro Sisneros.
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Imprint: |
Speaking Volumes, LLC
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
March 2012 |
First published: |
March 2012 |
Authors: |
Marcia Muller
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
182 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-61232-345-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
1-61232-345-6 |
Barcode: |
9781612323459 |
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