Chile death
Ex-lawyer turned herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles attends a chili cookoff where a womanizing judge dies of an allergic reaction to peanuts. And since everyone knows peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili, China knows something suspicious is afoot...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berkley Prime Crime,
1999, c1998.
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| Edition: | Berkley Prime Crime mass-market ed. |
| Series: | Albert, Susan Wittig. China Bayles mysteries ;
7. |
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| Summary: | Ex-lawyer turned herbalist and amateur sleuth China Bayles attends a chili cookoff where a womanizing judge dies of an allergic reaction to peanuts. And since everyone knows peanuts don't belong in a bowl of Texas chili, China knows something suspicious is afoot... |
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| Item Description: | Previously published in hardcover: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, [1998]. |
| Physical Description: | 306 p. ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780425171479 0425171477 0425165396 |
| Author Notes: | During the mid- to late-1980s, Albert was a ghostwriter for the Nancy Drew mystery series. She wrote the acclaimed "Work of Her Own: How Women Create Success and Fulfillment off the Traditional Career Track" in 1992. Under the pseudonym of Robin Paige, Albert and her husband, Bill Albert, co-authored a twelve-volume mystery series set in late Victorian/Edwardian England. Albert writes the bestselling China Bayles mystery series, which features as its main character a Texas herbalist who had been a criminal attorney in Houston. Albert also writes the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter historical fantasy series, which is set in England during the early twentieth century. (Bowker Author Biography) |
