Croaked: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery: 1 - Softcover

Verburg, C J

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983435502 ISBN 13: 9780983435501

Publisher: Boom-Books, 2011

Synopsis

Cape Cod! To Lydia Vivaldi, it looks like sanctuary – until she learns her one friend in Quansett is dead. How could an ex Fix-It Chick fatally fall off a ladder at a film shoot? When Lydia lands a cooking job at Leo’s Back End and starts asking questions, she’s stonewalled by the flirtatious filmmaker and resented by the police. Only Edgar Rowdey, reclusive artist-author of creepy little books, shares Lydia’s doubts about the “accident.” Can this unlikely pair of sleuths find out what really happened before it happens again?

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About the Author

A storyteller ever since she could talk, CJ Verburg spent more than a decade on Cape Cod collaborating on theater projects with the late artist and writer Edward Gorey. Their friendship inspired her elegant art book and theater biography The Theatrical Adventures of Edward Gorey (Chronicle Books, 2024), as well as her Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod mystery novels (Croaked, Zapped, and Shafted), her multimedia e-monograph Edward Gorey On Stage, and her play Spin, or Twilight of the Bohemians, winner of the 2012 Centenary Stage Women Playwrights' Series and the 2011 Ashland New Plays Festival. A former editor and freelance writer for major publishers on both coasts, CJ now lives in San Francisco. She also writes the Cory Goodwin mysteries, starring the Boston journalist daughter of NYC private detective Archie Goodwin. Look for her stories in anthologies and e-zines including Fault Lines: Crime Stories by Northern California Writers, Seascape: Best New England Crime Stories 2019, Invasive Species, Mystery Magazine, and Shotgun Honey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Boom-Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0983435502
• ISBN 13: 9780983435501
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364