Bayou City Secrets: A Hollis Carpenter Mystery

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One of the funniest most entertaining and most unusual mysteries of the year. Set in the cold winter of 1936 blunt-talking investigative reporter Hollis Carpenter has quit her steady job at the Houston Times rather than accept a society-page assignment. Newspaper owner Andrew Delacroix personally intervenes to dissuade her as does his beautiful wife Lily Delacroix... but lily has never before met a woman quite like Hollis Carpenter. Then things start to really go wrong and strange events beset Hollis. Her apartment is broken into a friend is murdered and almost despite herself she finds herself hurled into the milieu of the professional investigator... and liking what she finds.