Cold-Blooded Myrtle (Myrtle Hardcastle Mystery 3) Av Elizabeth C. Bunce

<P><B>An Edgar</B>®<B> Award Winning Series</B></P><P><B>Myrtle Hardcastle—twelve-year-old Young Lady of Quality and Victorian amateur detective—is back on the case, solving a string of bizarre murders in her hometown of Swinburne and picking up right where she left off in <I>Premeditated Myrtle</I> and <I>How to Get Away with Myrtle</I>. </B></P><P>When the proprietor of Leighton’s Mercantile is found dead on the morning his annual Christmas shop display is to be unveiled, it’s clear a killer had revenge in mind. But who would want to kill the local dry-goods merchant? Perhaps someone who remembers the mysterious scandal that destroyed his career as a professor and archaeologist. When the killer strikes again, each time manipulating the figures in the display to foretell the crime, Myrtle finds herself racing to uncover the long-buried facts of a cold case—and the motivations of a modern murderer. </P>