Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan

Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan

The first in a new mystery series that has it all -- a tragic puzzle, fabulous French food, and a peek into the fascinating world of wild orchids.
In 1984, a young Canadian woman vanished while on a hiking holiday in the Dordogne region of France. Was Bedie Dunn the victim of an accident? Or could she have been murdered? Haunted for years by the disappearance of her twin sister, Mara Dunn has moved to France to try to answer these questions.
Mara's amateur investigations finally begin to show progress when she discovers a camera she is convinced belonged to Bedie in a second-hand store. In it is an old roll of film, whose exposures turn out to be mostly of wild terrestial orchids. Mara turns to Julian Wood, an expatriate English orchidologist, for help with the impossible: can they use two-decade-old photos of flowers to trace Bedie's last route, and find the end of her journey? Julian is reluctant to get drawn into this seemingly hopeless quest, but the last exposure on the film is irresistible to him -- an unknown species of Lady's Slipper Orchid. If discovered, it might be the key to botanical fame -- or it could be the marker to a shallow grave.

From the Hardcover edition.

Michelle Wan was born in Kunming, China, in the middle of an air raid. She has lived in India, the US, England, Paris, Harare, and Rio de Janeiro. She and her husband, a botanist, travel regularly to the Dordogne to photograph and chart wild orchids. She is the author of three previous novels in the Death on the Dordogne series, Deadly Slipper; The Orchid Shroud, and A Twist of Orchids.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781400079520
ISBN 10	1400079527
Title	Deadly Slipper
Author	Michelle Wan
Series	Death In The Dordogne
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2006-05-09
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.