TY  - BOOK
AU  - Daheim,Mary
TI  - The Alpine Scandal: an Emma Lord Mystery 
T2  - Emma Lord Mysteries
SN  - 9780786295852
AV  - PS3554.A264 A839 2007
U1  - F DAH 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Waterville, Maine
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Lord, Emma (Fictitious character)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women editors
KW  - Washington (State)
KW  - Women detectives
KW  - Orthodontists
KW  - City and town life
KW  - FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Large type books
N2  - It’s a quiet morning at the Advocate until the mail brings shocking news: a formal obituary for Alpiner Elmer Nystrom. As far as anyone knows, Elmer is alive and well. But he hasn’t turned up for work, so Emma and her unstoppable House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, rush to the Nystrom home, where they find Elmer’s lifeless body in the henhouse, half buried under straw. Not only has he been murdered, but his obituary had been mailed before he died. Though Elmer was well liked by everyone, the same cannot be said of his standoffish wife or his son, the town’s new orthodontist.

Rumors fly–straight into the office of the Advocate. Why did Dr. Nystrom’s new receptionist resign at the end of her first day? Why are the Nystroms’ neighbors so close-mouthed? Who mailed that prophetic obituary? With Sheriff Milo Dodge in the hospital, it’s up to Emma and Vida to get to the bottom of the tragedy. Alpiners love scandal, and with Elmer’s murder, they’ll get their fill
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