The Northwest Murders (Maggie Elliott) - Softcover

Taylor, Elizabeth Atwood

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9780804111386: The Northwest Murders (Maggie Elliott)

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ISBN 10: 0804111383 ISBN 13: 9780804111386

Publisher: Fawcett, 1994

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"An intrepid Maggie and an exotic puzzle will keep the reader entertained."
THE KIRKUS REVIEWS
There's no rest for P.I. Maggie Elliott, even among the redwoods of the Pacific Northwest. Not when two hikers meet terror and death in the woods. Maggie hits the killer's trail with a vengeance, while law-enforcement officers do the predictable and arrest a Native American. What they don't know is that Mimi, a Native American child, saw the killer leaving the scene. And two people know she saw him. One is Maggie Elliott, in whom little Mimi confides, and the other is the killer, who knows what he must do next....

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From Kirkus Reviews:

In a third outing, p.i. Maggie Elliott (The Cable Car Murder, Murder at Vassar), recovering from a debilitating illness, is living in northern California, in the remote forest cabin left to her partner Richard O'Reagan by his Aunt Bessie. Its peaceful ambiance is shattered by news of the gruesome killing of a young hiker and the rape of his girl companion, who's comatose in a nearby hospital. Maggie, to her horror, discovers that the girl is Sally, daughter of her old friend Hallie Stephens. Sally will be at risk as long as the killer's loose, and Maggie promises her mother that she'll try to find the culprit. The lonely mountain-trail site of the murder has a surprising number of frequenters--little Hermina, an Indian girl whose great-grandmother's cabin is due to be razed by the Forest Service; a Chinese man staying in a motel who claims to be just a tourist; gossipy old-timer Joey Brown; Bill Dawson, looking for signs of Bigfoot; and several others. By the time Maggie succeeds in getting a wrongly accused Indian off the hook and brings the real villain into the open, there will have been more murders and a further attempt of Sally's life. Full of Indian and gold-mining lore, old and new love affairs, including Maggie's own with environmentalist Jim Pepper, the rambling story here never matches the pithiness of its first chapter--but an intrepid Maggie and an exotic puzzle will keep the reader entertained, if not enthralled. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

To recover from a long bout with chronic fatigue syndrome, environmentally conscious, politically correct PI Maggie Elliott leaves San Francisco (where she was introduced in The Cable Car Murders ) for a cabin her partner recently inherited near the California-Oregon border. She arrives two days after a young hiker was murdered and mutilated, and his girlfriend raped and nearly killed as well. The young woman is the daughter of a San Francisco friend, so Maggie agrees to investigate the crimes; then Jim Pepper, the Karuk Indian cousin of her partner, Pat O'Reagan, asks her to clear the name of a tribe member accused of the crimes. Maggie becomes temporary guardian of the one eyewitness, a little girl, and gets romantically involved with Jim; nine more people die before the mystery is solved. Regional rituals and history, including 50-year-old-diaries and a legend of lost gold nuggets, flavor this entertaining escapade.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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