When Wallflowers Die: A Phoebe Siegel Mystery - Softcover

Prowell, Sandra West

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553569708 ISBN 13: 9780553569704

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1997

Synopsis

Tough as barbed wire and just as tightly strung, Phoebe Siegel is a copturned private detective with too much past, too much family, and a talent fordiving too deep into a case.

Bob Maitland is the golden boy of Montana politics, poised to run for governor.There's just one loose end in his life--the 27-year-old killing of his heiresswife, Ellen, which was never solved. Maitland wants Phoebe Siegel to find thelong-missing construction worker who either committed or witnessed the murder.Phoebe, no fan of Maitland's style, promises only to think it over. AfterMaitland trumpets their supposed agreement to the press, Phoebe hears fromanother potential client. Frank Chillman swears Ellen Maitland's murder andthe murder of his prostitute sister, one day later, are related. Before Phoebecan even check out his story, he's found shot to death. With a dead man for aclient, she plunges into the case, trying to find the connection between a richwallflower and a hard-luck call girl who died three decades ago. The trail islong cold, but it heats up quickly as someone starts stalking Phoebe, withanother killing in mind....

"Phoebe [is] one of the most endearing private eyes in the genre....Anexciting ride".
"--The Denver Post"

"Powerful...In the class of female private eyes, with outstandingauthors such as Marcia Muller, Sue Grafton, and Sara Paretsky, Prowell nowtakes top marks".
"--Deadly Pleasures"

"Phoebe's smart enough to track down the killer, tough enough to take a bullet, and still nice enough to retreat home to her mother to recuperate".
"--San Jose Mercury News"

"A rip-roaring read".
"--Entertainment Weekly"

About this title

About the Author:

Sandra West Prowell is a fourth-generation Montanan and the great-granddaughter of early pioneers. A cofounder of the Montana Authors Coalition, she has written several Phoebe Siegel mysteries. Prowell lives in Billings, Montana.

Synopsis:

Investigating the twenty-five-year-old murder of the wife of a gubernatorial candidate, Montana detective Phoebe Siegel finds her life threatened by what she learns and confronts dramatic changes in her personal life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0553569708
• ISBN 13: 9780553569704
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368