Roll Over and Play Dead (Claire Malloy mysteries) - Softcover

Hess, Joan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312988281 ISBN 13: 9780312988289

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 2003

Synopsis

Bookstore owner Claire Malloy agrees to pet sit for Nick and Nora, two pampered basset hounds who promptly disappear from under her nose. When she discovers there's a blackmailing dognapper about, who runs a pit-fight gambling ring, she gets really mad. And when Claire gets mad, she gets even.

About this title

Review:

"A worthy issue; a few eccentrics; lots of ill-advised forays into danger; and a blithe heroine whose ironic reflections often produce a chuckle. Of special interest to dedicated animal-lovers."--"Kirkus Reviews"

From the Back Cover:

Murder is going to the dogs...

Bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy has donned another hat (or is that a collar?)-as a petsitter extraordinaire. Her furry charges are Miss Emily Parchester's beloved basset hounds, Nick and Nora, and two very good dogs they are. Everything is just ducky...until they vanish. Other neighbors' pets have also disappeared, and no doubt a dognapper is on the prowl...

Switching to her sleuthing chapeau, Claire quickly locates the shabby abode of Newton Churls, who runs a black market in stolen animals. But instead of a pen filled with purloined pooches, Claire finds one very dead Newton-and it appears his own pit bull terriers did him in. Or did they? Claire smells a human rat behind the brutal murder. And mysteriously, Nick and Nora are still missing. Now Claire is doggedly determined to find them...and run a killer to the ground.

"Doggone good...a well-plotted mystery that will fool the most clever sleuth."
--Mostly Murder

"Hess again provides lively and diverting entertainment via her brash and articulate detective."
--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312988281
• ISBN 13: 9780312988289
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 208