Beware the Butcher Bird (Lucy Wayles Mystery #2)
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- Synopsis
- [From the back cover] "A FOWL DEED, INDEED At sixty-something, Lucy Wayles, feisty leader of the birding group called the Olmsted's Irregulars, can distinguish a hairy woodpecker from a yellow-bellied sapsucker. A rara avis herself, she can also tell a song and dance from the truth ... and recognize murder when she sees it. And Lucy doesn't need binoculars to spot this homicide. When she and the quirky members of the Irregulars arrive at an award dinner for the great illustrator of field guides, John Wesley Carbondale, they are just in time to see Carbondale plummet from the hotel's upper floors onto a hot dog vendor's umbrella. The police call the swan dive a suicide. Lucy Wayles, remembering the butcher bird, which impales its prey on thorns, calls it fowl play. The fact that no one believes her only eggs her on. Now she's hatching a scheme to catch Carbondale's killer, but if her plan goes south, she runs the risk of ending up sadder, wiser.. .and deader than a dodo." There's never a dull moment with this little club of quirky bird-watcher's who's suspects and witnesses are even quirkier residents of the great, diverse population of New York City. Cozily amusing, they follow their outspoken, dramatic, whimsical leader, a shameless manipulator, into mystery solving expeditions most bird-watchers wouldn't dream of going. One of her Birders is Hapless, retired Dr. Markus who is so in love with Lucy that he eagerly follows her orders, usually against his better judgment. Check out the other books in this three book series in the Bookshare collection: #1 Beware the Tufted Duck, and #3 Beware the Laughing Gull.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 225 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780451191212
- Publisher:
- Signet
- Date of Addition:
- 07/03/12
- Copyrighted By:
- Lydia Adamson
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Animals, Literature and Fiction, Mystery and Thrillers
- Submitted By:
- Sandra Ryan
- Proofread By:
- Lissi
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.