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Crossword puzzle editor Belle Graham comes to the aid of her husband, Roscoe, as they investigate a devastating fire at the Collins family stables--a fire being blamed on the hard-drinking barn manager who somehow managed to rescue the horses--and discover a dysfunctional family made of an aged patriarch, his grown children, and his much-younger bride. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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When crossword editor Belle Graham arrives at the Evening Crier, the latest gossip is about the devastating fire at the Collins family stables. It's tempting to think it's a torch job. The Collinses made their fortune in bootlegged Prohibition whiskey before morphing into a legitimate, multi-million dollar corporation. Now Newcastle high society, they're living the lives of the rich and shameless, feuding amongst themselves as the family's aged patriarch marries younger-and-younger women. The latest is even younger than his children - who have been pushed aside by their new "step-mom."Belle's P.I. hubby Rosco is investigating the fire of the insurance company. The blaze is being blamed on the barn manager, a hard drinker who was sober enough to rescue the horses before falling debris - or something else - knocked him into a coma. And as Rosco searches for a needle in a haystack of clues, Belle is guessing that someone in the quarrelsome Collin's clan already knows the answers.
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