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Fiction Women Sleuths

Little Boy Blues

A Camilla MacPhee Mystery

by (author) Mary Jane Maffini

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Jun 2002
Category
Women Sleuths, General, Cozy
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781894917957
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $6.99
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459703896
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $12.95
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780929141947
    Publish Date
    Jun 2002
    List Price
    $12.95

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In the third Camilla MacPhee Mystery, Camilla’s looking forward to cutting loose at Ottawa’s Bluesfest, the huge open-air extravaganza, and to seeing the tail end of her annoying office assistant, Alvin, who is finally quitting. Then the news comes from the East Coast. Alvin’s younger brother Jimmy has vanished from the midst of a Canada Day crowd in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Is he dead? Has he been abducted? Sleuthing irritably about Sydney on Alvin’s behalf, Camilla manages to make the usual quota of people froth at the mouth, including Jimmy’s frantic family, forlorn friends and puzzled teachers. She doesn’t spare the parish priest or even the guy at the chip stand. Before Camilla knows it, all roads lead back to Ottawa, where a killer with everything to lose waits to create havoc among the tents, guitar-pickers and happy, swaying crowds. If Camilla doesn’t sort out this whole mess, how many other people are going to die?

About the author

Mary Jane Maffini is a lapsed librarian and a mystery addict. Author of six Camilla MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures, five Charlotte Adams books, and nearly two dozen short stories. She holds two Arthur Ellis Awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Derrick Murdoch lifetime achievement award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard for best novel. She lives and plots in Ottawa.

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