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| Murder at the Driskill |
Another
hotel; another murder; another Sydney Lockhart mystery.
Changes are happening fast and
furious for reporter Sydney Lockhart and her detective boyfriend, Ralph Dixon.
No sooner than they open their new detective agency, a high-profile case walks
through the door. Stringer Maynard, an influential Austin businessman, wants
business partner/brother-in-law, Leland Tatum, investigated before Tatum’s
campaign for governor begins. Seems Tatum has been keeping company with an
avant-garde crowd whose activities might jeopardize his chances of winning the
election.
Maynard invites Sydney and Dixon to
the famous Driskill Hotel for Tatum’s formal campaign announcement. Before they
even meet the candidate, a gunshot sends them hurrying into the next suite
where they discover Tatum has been shot and killed. Suddenly their professional
services turn to a murder investigation. As the suspect list grows, Sydney
acquires an unwanted partner Lydia LaBeau, a twelve-year-old daughter of one of
the potential murderers. To assist Sydney in clearing her father’s name, Lydia
dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and begins to collect her own bag of evidence.
Although much to Sydney’s annoyance, Lydia proves to be the smarter detective.
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| Kathleen Kaska |
Kathleen Kaska writes the Sydney Lockhart Mystery Series set in historic
hotels in the 1950s. Her first mystery, Murder at the Arlington, won the
2008 Salvo Press Manuscript Contest. This book, along with her second mystery, Murder
at the Luther, were selected as bonus-books for the Pulpwood Queens Book
Group, the largest book group in the country. Book number four, Murder at the Driskill, is her latest
Lockhart mystery.
Before
bringing Sydney into the world of murder and mayhem, Kathleen published three
mystery-trivia books in her Classic Triviography Mystery Series: The Agatha
Christie Triviography and Quiz Book, The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz
Book, and The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book. The Alfred
Hitchcock and the Sherlock Holmes trivia books were finalists for the 2013 EPIC
award in nonfiction. Her nonfiction book, The
Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story, was
published by the University Press of Florida and released in 2012. It is an
adventurous tale about Audubon ornithologist Robert Porter Allen who ventured
into the Canadian wilderness to save the last flock of whooping cranes from
extinction.
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