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Tar Heel Dead: Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina »
Authors: Sarah R. Shaber, Margaret Maron
ISBN-13: 9780807856048, ISBN-10: 0807856045
Format: Paperback
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press, The
Date Published: April 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Sarah R. Shaber
Sarah R. Shaber won the St. Martin's Press Award for Best First Traditional Mystery for her first book, Simon Said. Three sequels have followed, the most recent of which is The Bug Funeral, and she is at work on the fourth. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Book Synopsis
This mystery anthology contains eighteen short stories set in or written by authors from North Carolina. Includes many well-known writers, such as O. Henry, Lilian Jackson Braun, Orson Scott Card, Margaret Maron, Michael Malone, and BarbaraNeely.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Dead in the water | 1 | |
| A star for a warrior | 20 | |
| The dissipated jeweler | 37 | |
| Murchison passes a test | 44 | |
| A Pyrrhic mystery | 54 | |
| Mr. Strang takes a partner | 68 | |
| Killer fudge | 83 | |
| Susu and the 8:30 ghost | 98 | |
| Dogwalker | 109 | |
| The corn thief | 136 | |
| The choice | 151 | |
| The soul of deception | 158 | |
| Feasting with foxes | 182 | |
| Maniac loose | 198 | |
| Beauty is only skin deep | 215 | |
| The wish peddler | 235 | |
| Spilled salt | 240 | |
| The dog who remembered too much | 250 |
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