Death of a Political Plant: a Gardening Mystery
by Ann Ripley
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 055310778X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553107784
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
308 pages. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over black boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition.
Louise's TV show, Gardening with Nature, has made her a celebrity, sweeping her from lawn-mower commercials all the way to the president's National Environmental Commission. Here, in Washington's suburban Sylvan Valley, she is subject to an unwelcome infestation of houseguests that threatens to crowd out her houseplants. Least welcome of all are three bossy busybodies in town for the Perennial Plant Society convention, who fete Louise as official Plant Person of the Year but press her to slash back the sweetgums and swamp oaks that give her beloved garden its pristine air. Her grin-and-bear-it mood is lightened, however, by the arrival of an old flame. Twenty years ago, in the first bloom of youth, Louise fell heavily for Jay McCormick's crooked smile and crusading charm. Now, he's an investigative journalist looking worriedly over his shoulder. Jay confides that he's come on two distinct undercover missions. One is to ensure that his ex-wife, a high-powered political lawyer, doesn't cheat on the rules for custody of their young daughter. Around the other, he raises an impenetrable thicket of secrecy. But Jay's cover is blown when he surfaces, a nibbled corpse, in a neighbor's ornamental fishpond. Who put him there? And what was the mysterious story he was investigating?
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
Synopsis
A former newspaperwoman, Ann Ripley now spends her time organic gardening and writing mysteries. She lives with her husband, Tony, in Lyons, Colorado. Her first novel, Mulch , won the Top Hand Award from the Colorado Authors' League. She is at work on her fourth gardening mystery.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L1383
- Title
- Death of a Political Plant: a Gardening Mystery
- Author
- Ann Ripley
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 055310778X
- ISBN 13
- 9780553107784
- Publisher
- Bantam Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 308 pages
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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