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A plain vanilla murder / Susan Wittig Albert.

Summary:

China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. The series name is "A China Bayles Mystery"

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781432865290 (large print : hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1432865293 (large print : hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019.
Subject: Bayles, China (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Wilcox, Ruby (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Herbalists > Fiction.
Herb stores > Fiction.
Women detectives > Fiction.
Vanilla > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
College teachers > Crimes against > Fiction.
Smuggling > Fiction..
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Large print books.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Kenton County.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Covington Branch LTM ALBER S (Text) 33126021745496 Large Print Fiction Available -
Erlanger Branch LTM ALBER S (Text) 33126021745058 Large Print Fiction Available -

  • Baker & Taylor
    When China Wilcox and police chief Sheila Dawson team up to solve a botany professor's murder, their investigation is complicated by an extinct orchid and an innocent young girl.
  • Baker & Taylor
    China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent littlegirl. The series name is "A China Bayles Mystery"

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