The Cranefly Orchid Murders by Cynthia Riggs

The Cranefly Orchid Murders by Cynthia Riggs

Victoria Trumbull is a feisty ninety-two-year-old who refuses to let her age stop her from having fun--or investigating crime. When Victoria's knowledge of her native Martha's Vineyard helped to solve a murder in Deadly Nightshade, she earned her own baseball cap emblazoned with West Tisbury Police Deputy. Now the authorities will turn to her again to help uncover another scandal on the idyllic island. Phoebe Eldridge, a short-tempered woman who lives alone, has sold the family land to a developer who made an offer that seemed too good to resist. When the Conservation Trust enlists Victoria to search that land for an endangered plant, she and her eleven-year-old after-school assistant are rewarded with the discovery of a little nest of cranefly orchids--and a body. If Victoria isn't careful, a killer might take her off the endangered list--and make her extinct.

Riggs, Cynthia: - CYNTHIA RIGGS is the author of the Martha's Vineyard mystery series and the guidebook Victoria Trumbull's Martha's Vineyard. She started writing the series while earning her MFA at Vermont College at age 68. Prior to becoming an author, she qualified for the 1948 Olympic fencing team, was the seventh woman to set foot on the South Pole, and crossed the Atlantic twice in a thirty-two-foot sailboat. Riggs gives weekly lectures onboard tourist ships during the summer and shepherds two writing groups. She lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts where she runs a bed and breakfast out of the homestead that has been in her family for eight generations.

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ISBN 13	9780312301453
ISBN 10	0312301456
Title	The Cranefly Orchid Murders
Author	Cynthia Riggs
Series	Martha's Vineyard Mysteries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Minotaur Books
Year published	2002-05-10
Number of pages	272
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