What Evil Lurks: A Lavina London Mystery - Softcover

McCahery, James R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1575660016 ISBN 13: 9781575660011

Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp, 1996

Synopsis

Learning about her neighbor's suicide, retired radio star and amateur sleuth Lavina London suspects foul play and must search through the ghosts, gossip, and glories of her own celebrated past in order to find a killer. Reprint.

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From Publishers Weekly:

This pleasantly updated but still old-fashioned cozy stars retired radio personality Lavina London, who, introduced in the paperback original Grave Undertaking, here makes her hardcover debut. Henry Blaine, star with his late wife of a 1940s radio soap opera, is found dead in his Catskills home after throwing a farewell bash celebrating his upcoming move to Canada. Lavina proves it was murder and sets out for New York City for clues among the many old radio figures who had attended the party. There is no shortage of suspects, for Henry, whose son Garrett is short of funds, was little loved and not above blackmail. In Manhattan, another radio player is killed and Lavina nearly loses her own life, before the redoubtable sleuth uncovers the secret behind the murders. Reaching into the long-ago era when radio was king, McCahery creates a sympathetic detective of a certain age in this diverting, if undemanding, mystery.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

A pair of seven-year-olds start this mystery rolling when they tell series sleuth Lavina London about "ghosts" in a neighbor's house in the Catskills. Seventyish Lavina and local sheriff Tod Arthur soon try to find the murderer of a man whose background in radio may have led him to blackmail. Already researching a book on her own radio experience, Lavina tempts fate by interviewing the man's former colleagues in New York City. Perky and spry, Lavina makes a great sleuth, and the author's seamless prose easily finishes what the children began. A pleasant read.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kensington Pub Corp
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1575660016
• ISBN 13: 9781575660011
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256