Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing, 1987. 1st edition, so stated, with complete number line beginning with 1. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. Author's 1st mystery. A genealogical mystery. Charts and a cast of characters provide the answers, but the clever story will stump the most determined reader. Stratton is a Fellow of the American Society of Genealogists. "Genealogy, genetics and keen detective work mesh effectively, if ponderously, in this first novel set on isolated Fogge Island off the New England coast. Mort Sinclair is a respected genealogist and lawyer, hired as a consultant by the state police who think his particular expertise in exploring family histories will help them solve three cyanide poisonings in the island's prominent and densely interrelated Gorges family. (Ample genealogical charts are provided to aid the reader in tracing the byzantine family connections.) When more, puzzling murders are committed, Sinclair's astute detective work with library and courthouse documents reveals nasty, long-hidden family secrets: the island's respected doctor is up to his elbows in deceitful practices; the Gorges family fortune was made unscrupulously; and, astonishingly enough, two babies were switched at birth. Sinclair works closely with Sergeant Priscilla Booth, a witty, bright and capable officer who proves to be a relentless though diplomatic interrogator. Their quietly romantic relationship lends strength and continuity to a book overly burdened with complex entanglements and labored explanations. This is the first fiction title for Ancestry Inc." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book.

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Bookseller: Murder By The Book (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003310
Title: KILLING COUISINS
Author: Stratton, Gene
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0916489388
ISBN 13: 9780916489380
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Place of Publication: Salt Lake City
Date Published: 1987
Keywords: 1ST MYSTERY;Genealogy, Island, New England
Bookseller catalogs: NEW ENGLAND; Island;

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