A Corpse for Yew

A Corpse for Yew
ISBN-10
1101050594
ISBN-13
9781101050590
Category
Fiction
Pages
304
Language
English
Published
2009-05-05
Publisher
Penguin
Author
Joyce and Jim Lavene

Description

Includes gardening tips! No rain means profits are wilting at The Potting Shed, so Peggy Lee joins her mother on a "bone harvest" expedition for the local historical society. But she stumbles upon a perplexing mystery-how a fellow volunteer became a corpse with curiously red lips.

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