- Fiction, Mystery, Women cleaning personnel, Mystery fiction
When cleaning lady Lily Bard discovers the dead body of her nosy landlord, her plan of starting a quiet new life may end in her death.
FictionMysteryWomen cleaning personnelMystery fictionLily Bard (Fictitious character)Women detectivesBard, lily (fictitious character), fictionArkansas, fictionFiction, mystery & detective, women sleuthsFiction, thrillers, generalShakespeare (ark. : imaginary place), fictionFiction, mystery & detective, general
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Classical in form, contemporary, unpretentious and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Charlaine Harris
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 224
- Publisher
- Dell, Random House Publishing Group, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780440614067
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Subjects
- Fiction
- Mystery
- Women cleaning personnel
- Mystery fiction
- Lily Bard (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives
- Bard, lily (fictitious character), fiction
- Arkansas, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
- Fiction, thrillers, general
- Shakespeare (ark. : imaginary place), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
First sentence
“I GATHERED MYSELF, MY BARE FEET GRIPPING THE wooden floor, my thigh muscles braced for the attack.”
About Charlaine Harris · 1951
American writer
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