The Body in the Basement: A Faith Fairchild Mystery Contributor(s): Page, Katherine Hall (Author) |
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ISBN: 0380723395 ISBN-13: 9780380723393 Publisher: William Morrow & Company OUR PRICE: $8.09 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound - Other Formats Published: July 2001 Annotation: Yankee recipes, elderly quilters, Down East antiques--and a dead body--combine to make a cozy summer on a Maine island for young mother/minister's wife/sleuth Faith Fairchild. |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Women |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Faith Fairchild Mysteries |
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 4.2" W x 6.83" (0.39 lbs) 368 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Cultural Region - Northeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Maine - Seasonal - Summer - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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Publisher Description: A Good Foundation ... For MurderPix Miller, Faith Fairchild's next-door neighbor, expects to find more than a hole in the ground when she goes to check on the progress of the summer cottage the Fairchilds are having built on Maine's Sanpere Island. She expects a concrete foundation. What she doesn't expect is a very dead body wrapped in a very valuable antique quilt The deceased is a local handyman with a suspiciously lucrative sideline in antiques. Sharing her friend Faith's inquisitive nature, Pix resolves to restore Sanpere's shattered peace. But by digging too deeply the determined Ms. Miller just might be arranging another burial -- her own |
Contributor Bio(s): Page, Katherine Hall: - Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty-three previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery. The Body in the Snowdrift was honored with the Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. Page also won an Agatha for her short story "The Would-Be Widower." The recipient of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement, she has been nominated for the Edgar, the Mary Higgins Clark, the Maine Literary, and the Macavity Awards. She lives in Massachusetts and Maine with her husband. |