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The Alpine Advocate : An Emma Lord Mystery by Daheim, Mary is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The debut of the Emma Lord murder mystery series. After a year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. What she really needs for her paper, though, is a big story. And she gets it--when handsome Mark Doukas, grandson of rich, old Neeny Doukas is murdered. Emma discovers that trying to get straight answers out of Neeny and his thin-lipped son is like poking a nest of sleeping rattlesnakes. What begins with an innocent story about the murdered man, ends with Emma conducting the most interesting, and probably the last, interview of her career from the wrong end of a .38.... From the Paperback edition. From Publishers Weekly Daheim's ( Holy Terrors ) amateur-sleuth whodunits unfortunately recycle well-worn elements: mistaken identities, long-hidden secrets, convoluted familial relationships and heavy-handed clues. Even a new heroine, newspaper publisher Emma Lord, and a change in locale, here the mythical small town of Alpine, Wash., can't rescue this ho-hum mystery. Chris Martinez, black sheep of the rich and powerful Doukas clan, has returned to Alpine for the first time si

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Author

Daheim, Mary

Publisher

Fawcett

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307760098

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.2 / 5 (338 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14