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Cape Cod is magical at any time of year. However, many permanent
residents, including sisters Rachel and Beth Brewster, find it hard
to make ends meet during the cold, lonely winter months, which is
why they must work extra-long hours at multiple jobs all through
the short summer season to save enough for the rest of the year. To
complicate matters, Beth is only fifteen and is restricted as to
how many hours she can work during the school year. It wouldn't be
so bad if their mother weren't an alcoholic who absolutely refuses
to help with the bills. Then the dead bodies begin cropping up in
the neighborhoods and marshes surrounding scenic Lewis Bay. The
Yarmouth and Barnstable Police begin to see a pattern linking both
Rachel and Beth to the murders, but they can't seem to assemble
enough proof to make an arrest. Meanwhile, a regular patron of a
bar where Rachel frequently works in the evening provides some help
in the young woman's search for a better-paying job, and life
becomes hell for Beth as she is stalked by several teenage boys who
have their own ideas about what constitutes a loving relationship.
What could be more fun than a deer hunting trip to the mountains
near Prescott, Arizona in November, 1895? At least it seems that
way to Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher, his
12-year-old stepdaughter, Scout Walker, and several other family
members and friends until one of the group ends up with a knife in
the back. Complicating matters are a howling blizzard and the
sudden appearance of three murdering outlaws. With Pima slogging
through the snow chasing outlaws and Scout hot on Pima's trail
things go from bad to worse until Pima and Scout's survival hangs
by a thread. Back home in Tucson with the original murder unsolved,
Scout, afraid she's going to be accused of the murder, runs away to
a nearby mission to hide. Finally, everything is resolved but not
until after a confession of murder from a most unexpected source.
What could be more fun than a day at the beach? A month at the
beach, perhaps? That's what teenager Mary Ann Markham, her live-in
writing coach Art Parker, and her best friend Jennifer Martin think
when Mary Ann convinces her wealthy grandfather to rent a fancy
beach house for the entire month of July near the small East Coast
town of Shipwreck. But then strange things begin to happen,
especially with the appearance of several not very well preserved
bodies, an unexpected shooting or two, and a murder with mob
overtones. Meanwhile, Art becomes close friends with a local
emergency room doctor named Marsha, and he and the girls become
somewhat less than close friends with the local police chief,
primarily because of the bodies they keep finding. Then Mary Ann
and Jennifer disappear shortly before a major hurricane hits the
area. Could it be retired mobster "Little" Tony Gambolo, who lives
a short distance down the beach, that's behind all these deaths and
the disappearance of the girls? Art, with Marsha's help, is at his
wits' end trying to find Mary Ann, Jennifer, and the answer to
who's behind the killings.
Fifteen-year-old Mary Ann Markham, and her best friend, Jennifer
Martin, decide to host an innocent Halloween party for some
schoolmates at the Victorian mansion of Mary Ann's wealthy
grandfather. Her live-in writing coach, Art Parker, and his
fiancee, Marsha Brown, M.D., have joined the other party attendees
in a rather complicated treasure hunt when the game is interrupted
by the discovery of a very dead body in a cave. After Mary Ann and
Jennifer are nearly killed in a school bus accident another body is
found in the cave, and then two more, but what makes things even
more bizarre is the presence of symbols indicative of black magic.
While the local sheriff's department seems stymied, Art, Marsha,
and the two girls join a local hiking club, thinking maybe its
members are somehow involved in the murders. However, instead of
finding the murderer or murderers they discover another body in the
cave. Things go from bad to worse, with Mary Ann, Jennifer, Art,
and Marsha all in line to be victims before the mystery is solved.
Why is 13-year-old Scout Walker first hiding out in a mountaintop
cave and then working in the copper mining town of Bisbee, Arizona
disguised as a 16-year-old messenger boy during the autumn of 1896?
Her stepfather, Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher,
is up to his ears in problems dealing with inexplicable rail
shipments at the same time he's busy searching for the runaway
girl. Will Scout be able to maintain her disguise while remaining
hidden from her family, or will she become just another victim of a
mining accident before Pima is able to locate and rescue her?
Southern Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher is asked by the
Santa Fe Railroad to help track down who might be smuggling whiskey
to the huge Navajo Reservation. When he suddenly disappears, Pima's
stepdaughter, fifteen-year-old Scout Walker, convinces her mother,
Ellen, to travel with her to Winslow, Arizona to find Pima and help
him in his search. At the same time, Scout decides to begin writing
her memoirs with assistance from an English author they meet in
Winslow, a waitress at the local Harvey House Restaurant is found
murdered, Pima spends some time in the painted desert as the
unhappy guest of a mysterious person, and a deserting soldier and
an itinerant peddler become prime smuggling suspects. Everything
comes to an end with a gun battle in the as-yet-unprotected
Petrified Forest.
Ellen Gallagher and Maria Gonzales, taken hostage at their Tucson
dress shop by a hired killer, are hauled unceremoniously into
Arizona's most inhospitable desert. When Ellen's husband, Southern
Pacific Railroad Detective Pima Gallagher; her daughter,
14-year-old Scout Walker; and Maria's husband, Jose, set out on the
women's trail they are nearly killed by a raging grass fire and a
flash flood. Back in Tucson a wealthy couple from Mexico is
targeted by a group of swindlers. When the Mexican man is murdered
outside his home, confusion reigns as Pima and Scout compare the
alibis of several suspects, any one of whom not only could have
committed the crime but also had a good reason for doing so.
Art Parker, an unemployed journalist, answers an ad for employment,
but the ad has few details about what the job entails or where
he'll be working. He gets the job after an evening interview at a
huge, Victorian-style mansion miles from anywhere. The owner, an
incredibly wealthy old man, hires Art as live-in writing coach for
his teenage granddaughter. That sounds like an easy, relaxing sort
of job, at least until the next afternoon when Art and Mary
Ann--she's the granddaughter--find the housemaid dead on the girl's
bedroom floor. An out-of-control sheriff, a bizarrely named lawyer,
a beautiful librarian, a marvelous cook, and a huge valet/gardener
clutter the landscape and add a pile of confusion while Art and
Mary Ann decide to do some detecting on their own. What do they
turn up? Another body. After enlisting the help of Mary Ann's
friend, Jennifer, the unlikely sleuths eventually solve both
murders but not before nearly becoming victims themselves.
A beautiful mid-autumn day, just the day for a Sunday drive in the
country. At least that's what former journalist Art Parker; his
wife, Dr. Marsha Parker; their sixteen-year-old adopted daughter,
Mary Ann Markham; and her best friend, Jennifer Martin, think when
they visit a hilltop in the western part of Mercer County that
contains a Christmas tree farm; an old, apparently abandoned
mansion; and... a corpse. If that isn't bad enough, after reporting
the corpse to Jennifer's uncle, Sheriff's Deputy J.J. McClure, the
girls decide they want to disregard the "No Trespassing" sign and
explore the mansion's interior--several times. As usual, they
discover more dead bodies. Add to that a couple of kidnappings and
a cache of smuggled goods, and they're lucky to escape with their
lives before they finally discover the real murderer at a most
unexpected location.
Art and Marsha Parker finally have a chance to get away for a week
from Marsha's medical clinic in the small town of Bearford to visit
a plush resort for a honeymoon, a gift from their wealthy
benefactor, Charles Drummond. Somehow their adopted
sixteen-year-old daughter, Mary Ann Markham, who is also Drummond's
granddaughter, and Mary Ann's best friend, Jennifer Martin, manage
to convince the old man that Art and Marsha need chaperoning, so
the two girls show up at the resort at the end of the first week,
ostensibly to notify Art and Marsha that they've been booked for
another week but really to investigate a corpse--soon to be
two--discovered at the foot of a high waterfall on the resort's
property. With their usual lack of good luck, all four get involved
with searching for counterfeit fifty-dollar bills. Then Art, Mary
Ann, and Jennifer manage to get themselves kidnapped by three thugs
while attempting some unauthorized detective work on their own.
While Marsha, inspired by the waterfalls at the resort, convinces
Drummond to build a trail to an overlook for a waterfall on his
property, the search for the counterfeiters goes on. Art, Mary Ann,
and Jennifer keep getting themselves in more and more trouble until
Art and Mary Ann come up with a brainstorm that finally leads them
to the head of the counterfeiting ring and almost to their own
deaths.
The butler did it, or maybe he didn't. It's summer, and
fourteen-year-old Mary Ann Markham is bored. Then she remembers
that her wealthy grandfather just happens to own a rather rundown
lake a short distance down the hill from his huge Victorian
mansion. She enlists her live-in writing coach, Art Parker, and her
friend, Jennifer Martin, to help restore the lake and its
surroundings to a thing of beauty, using Grandfather's money, of
course. Things get off to a good start--that is until they discover
the decomposing body of a teenage girl in the woods. Then there's
the butler who likes to stargaze, the local youth hostel that just
happens to catch fire while Mary Ann and Art are attending a
sing-along there, the two bodies discovered in the ashes of the
hostel, and the local sheriff who thinks everybody's guilty of
something. While fishing from a boat on the lake Jennifer hooks
something big--you guessed it--the nude body of another teenage
girl. Suspects abound, but especially the new butler, gardener, and
housemaid. Time passes. The girls throw a Halloween party at the
mansion for their classmates and then disappear. Now Art, with
little help from the local sheriff's department, must try to find
them and their abductor before they join the growing list of
corpses.
A body falls off a train during a heavy downpour near Tucson,
Arizona in late January of 1895. As the rain ends, the wagons of a
traveling medicine show arrive in town with performers to entertain
and a doctor of questionable credentials to peddle his wares. Pima
Gallagher, a detective for the Southern Pacific Railroad, assisted,
or at least she thinks so, by Scout Walker, his eleven-year-old
stepdaughter, try to learn the identity of the corpse and whether
its sudden appearance has anything to do with the nearly
simultaneous arrival of Dr. Blenheim's show. Meanwhile, Pima's
brother and sister, back in his home state of Mississippi, are
causing him a great deal of concern with their letters about
brother Jefferson's deteriorating health. Eventually things come to
a satisfactory conclusion, but not before more murder and mayhem
manage to put Pima and Scout in fear for their lives in the
mountains and desert areas between Tucson and Phoenix.
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Pima (Paperback)
John A. Miller Jr
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R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Murder, arson, robbery, rape, and kidnapping are alive and well in
Tucson, Arizona during the blistering hot summer of 1894. Are they
the result of several unrelated acts or the work of one criminal
mastermind? Pima Gallagher, a detective for the Southern Pacific
Railroad, must try to keep his landlady's eleven-year-old daughter,
Scout, out of trouble while he follows clue after clue, until he
ferrets out the real architect of evil from a mass of false trails
and confusion.
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