Author: Mary Daheim
Year: 2004
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Mystery, Cozy Mystery
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9780345447920
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As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle Times says Daheim is "one of the brightest stars in our city's literary constellation"--and the popularity of her irresistible Pacific Northwest crime series has swept across the nation. Now the unfaltering Emma Lord is back in her highly anticipated hardcover debut.
For a small town newspaper like The Alpine Advocate, a new play at the local community college is big news. Editor and publisher Emma Lord is duty-bound to attend opening night, but expects the amateur enterprise will serve only as a cure for insomnia. The play is dubbed "a black comedy," but the only laughs Emma gets are from the bad acting and the wretched script. And while the turgid production makes Wagner's Ring cycle seem like a vignette, the real drama begins just before the final curtain.
Hans Berenger, dean of students, wasn't well known or well liked around Alpine, but the audience found his death scene genuinely convincing--until they realized he wasn't acting. No one can say how or when the blanks in the prop gun were replaced with the real bullets that killed Berenger, but the list of suspects reads like a playbill of the cast and crew. They all had opportunity, access, and their own axes to grind with the thespically challenged dean.
Seeking the assistance of Vida Runkel, the Advocate's redoubtable House and Home editor, Emma Lord vows to unravel a mystery that spirals out into unexpected places. As Emma sets the stage for the most likely suspect, she finds herself in a two-character scene whose next cue could make the resolute editor take a final--and permanent--bow.
From the Hardcover edition.
This book is part of the "Emma Lord" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "The Alpine Yeoman"
First published in 2014
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 | "The Alpine Xanadu"
First published in 2013
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 | "The Alpine Winter"
First published in 2011
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 | "The Alpine Vengeance"
First published in 2010
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 | "The Alpine Scandal"
First published in 2007
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 | "The Alpine Recluse"
First published in 2006
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 | "The Alpine Nemesis"
First published in 2001
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| "The Alpine Menace"
First published in 2000
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 | "The Alpine Gamble"
First published in 1996
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 | "The Alpine Decoy"
First published in 1994
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 | "The Alpine Christmas"
First published in 1993
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 | "The Alpine Betrayal"
First published in 1993
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 | "The Alpine Zen"
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