Give Up the Body
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- Synopsis
- The characters . . . Adeline OHara, ex-WAC and reporter for the Teneskium (Oregon) Pioneer, also country correspondent for the Portland Press, who tells the story. She is young, red-headed, and Irish. She meetsTitus Willow, the pudgy passionate professional philanthropist, who is a badly frightened man. He is visitingCarson Delhart, the Portland millionaire, who dislikes giving interviews, and who wants to marry Titus Willows daughterDaisy Willow, small and babyish, with a penchant for suicide. She is engaged to Arthur Frew, Titus Willows assistant, a very sullen young man who dislikes everyone and everything. He causes Adeline a lot of trouble. Also involved isGlory Martin, beautiful ice-blonde ward of Carson Delhart. She is rumored to be his mistress, and has definite tendencies toward dipsomania and nymphomania. Watching out for her isPotter Hilton, Delharts extremely efficient secretary, who is cold and precise and at times very frightening. He introduces Adeline toMrs. Edna Willow, Titus who had a very bad disposition. She is concerned with making a good marriage for Daisy until murder intervenes. Suspected by police isTim Larson, a high school friend of Adelines and now Delharts chauffeur. He is in love with Glory Martin. He lives with Mrs. Larson, his Irish mother, and Mr. Larson, called Big Swede, although he is half a head shorter than his son, Tim. Along with everyone else, they dislikeGodfrey Tiffin, the assistant county prosecutor, who was Adelines first suitor, whom she rejected. He has never forgiven her and causes her a great deal of trouble even thoughJocko Bedford, the sheriff, s on her side most of the time. Then there is Jeff Cook, the star reporter for the Portland Press, who is sent to Teneskium to help Adeline cover the murder, and is involved while helping her to try to prove Tim Larsons innocence. He becomes a good friend of Jud Argyle, Adelines boss, owner of the Weekly Teneskium Pioneer, who smells his liquor instead of drinking it, andBosco, the cat who saves Adelines honor, and who had a tremendous appetite for newsprint, string, and shoelaces, andNellie, Adelines ancient jalopy, whose death causes Titus Willow a lot fo grief later on. She is one of Adelines problems, along with the missing felt hat, the body in the river, and Jeff Cook. Adeline becomes more and more involved with Godfrey Tiffin, who wants to put her in jail (especially after he finds Jeff Cooks pajamas in her dresser) until her midnight swim in her lingerie and an attempted suicide help point out the solution.
- Copyright:
- 1974
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781440542022
- Publisher:
- Prologue Books
- Date of Addition:
- 04/19/13
- Copyrighted By:
- Louis Trimble
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.