Death on Demand 11 - White Elephant Dead by Carolyn Hart

Author:Carolyn Hart [Dead, White Elephant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

WHITE ELEPHANT DEAD / 143

Annie did, too. This title was the first in a series of brilliant historical mysteries set in the period following the American Revolution. The books chronicled the life of midwife Hannah Trevor, a woman surviving turbulent and terrible times. “I sure do. I’ll hold it for you. Thanks, Mindy.”

Annie was nearing the Seaside Inn. She punched in Edith’s home number.

The phone was answered in mid-ring. “Hello?” Edith’s raspy voice quivered with hopefulness. She would likely have welcomed a call from a government survey.

“Hi, Edith. This is Annie. How are you feeling?”

“I’m waiting for deliverance,” the sour voice groused. “Not like the damn river. That would make you stick to the city forever. Then you read James Ellroy and you know the city’s even scarier. Where to go? What to do? A treehouse? A moon shot? A yellow submarine? Is this the lottery people?

I’ll get on a plane to Marrakesh if I have to crawl there.” A heavy sigh. “Hello, Annie.”

“Hey, Edith. I’m sorry about your fall.” Annie picked up speed, turned left. Edith didn’t live far from St. Mary’s. Or, by extension, from Kathryn Girard’s shop and apartment.

“Are you up for company?”

“You? Or a traveling circus? Maybe there’s a friendly python who’d like to drop over. Wiggle over? Slide over?

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