| Death Assemblage Contributor(s): Miller, Susan Cummins (Author) |
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ISBN: 0896724816 ISBN-13: 9780896724815 Publisher: Texas Tech University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2002 Annotation: The first of the Frankie MacFarlane Series, Death Assemblage is a multilayered mystery nestled in the mountains of Nevada -- just west of Pair-a-Dice. The mountains hold mysteries -- geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the rocks of the range for the past three summers. In the final week of her dissertation fieldwork, she searches for an elusive final key to her research: a limestone marker bed -- a death assemblage -- hidden by dangerous, shifting talus. But as Frankie strives to piece together her geologic jigsaw puzzle, she is embroiled in a web of ancient and recent murders, a manhunt, kidnappings, and blackmail. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2001006279 |
| Series: Frankie MacFarlane Mysteries |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.36" W x 9.34" (1.07 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Nevada |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first of the Frankie MacFarlane Series The mountains west of Pair-a-Dice, Nevada, hold mysteries geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the Paleozoic and Mesozoic sedimentary rocks of the range for the past three summers. In the final week of her dissertation fieldwork, she searches for an elusive final key to her research: a limestone marker bed--a death assemblage of fossil ammonoids--hidden by dangerous, shifting talus. But as Frankie strives to piece together her geologic jigsaw puzzle, the denizens of Pair-a-Dice, her base of operations, embroil her in a web of ancient and recent murders, a manhunt, kidnappings, and blackmail. A thirty-truck town, fifty miles from anywhere, Pair-a-Dice boasts two restaurants, three bars, seven pool tables, twenty-one slot machines, and a motley assemblage of misfits, including Diane Laterans, a punk schoolteacher who wears her Phi Beta Kappa key from her ear; Isabel Elorrio, crusty ex-marine and motel proprietor; Lon Bovey, rancher and would-be congressman; Walker, a mute handyman; the Anderson brothers, hooligans claiming kinship to infamous Bloody Bill; and a stranger, E. J. Killeen, U.S. Army, retired. Two bodies are discovered near Interstate 80, disrupting Frankie's research. Are the killings linked to Killeen, to the new waitress in town, to Frankie's ex-fianc , who disappeared four months ago, or to older violence, the clues of which Frankie discovers in the mountains? Frankie's environmental sensibilities and her grasp of geologic and human continuums make her truly a woman--and sleuth--of the new millennium. |