Killer On A Hot Tin Roof
A Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mystery
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Publisher Description
Delilah Dickinson is looking forward to a relaxing getaway leading her literary travel agency's latest tour at the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans. But a group of low-key English professors waste little time drawing their claws, especially when one of them claims he can prove Williams didn't even write Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. But when the supposed real author turns up dead, Delilah knows she's got to get to the bottom of things. . .even if the truth is as dirty as all them lies! Finding a murderer amidst all the steamy affairs, squabbling, and shouts of"Shut up! / No, you shut up!" is making Delilah feel like a certain cat stuck on a certain roof. Plus there's still a killer on the loose, and if she doesn't act quickly she just may find herself starring. . .in her very own death scene!
Praise for Livia J. Washburn and Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead
"Amusing, breathlessly quick." --Publishers Weekly
"Gone with the Wind fans will cozy up to this tale." --Mystery Scene
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Washburn's breezy, briskly paced third Literary Tour cozy (after 2009's Huckleberry Finished) takes Atlanta tour organizer Delilah Dickinson to New Orleans' French Quarter. Delilah's hopes for an uneventful trip, one spent shepherding college professors to the annual Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, are soon frustrated by the careerist infighting and emotional tensions among her charges. The group is particularly incensed to discover that one of its members, the ambitious Dr. Michael Frasier, plans to question the authorship of the novel's namesake play. When Frasier's surprise guest, his candidate for the real author and a onetime lover of Williams, turns up murdered, Delilah once again puts on her sleuthing cap. Washburn's literary in-jokes and lightly satirical jabs at academe entertain, but the book's main attraction is its likably down-to-earth protagonist, though many readers will probably figure out whodunit before she does.
