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list price: $14.95
edition:Paperback
category: Fiction
published: Oct 2014
ISBN:9781771510875
publisher:
TouchWood Editions
Description
Winner of the 2015 Bony Blithe Award for Best Canadian Light Mystery
A classic whodunit series in the tradition of Agatha Christie, featuring eccentric criminologist and foodie Cait Morgan.
With birthday celebrations in the cards, Cait Morgan and her significant other, retired cop Bud Anderson, travel to Las Vegas. As they are about to finish dinner in the casino owners’ exclusive private dining room, Miss Shirley, a woman acknowledged as Queen of The Strip, is murdered. Security locks down the room. Cait, Bud, a corpse, and ten possible murderers are trapped in the luxurious restaurant for twelve deadly hours. The bodies pile up, the tension mounts, the list of suspects dwindles—and Cait knows she has to work out who the killer is because there’s no telling who might be next to die.
The fourth book in the beloved Cait Morgan series, The Corpse with the Platinum Hair travels to Sin City, where Welsh Canadian foodie and criminologist Cait Morgan comes up against her toughest mystery yet.
Awards
- Winner, Bony Blithe Award
Editorial Reviews
"Cathy Ace can be commended for sticking to a tried and tested formula of cosy crime in an exotic location, reminiscent of the Golden Age of crime fiction. The Corpse with the Platinum Hair offers a sympathetic amateur detective, a locked-room mystery, a small cast of colourful suspects, loving descriptions of food and drink, and a few red herrings thrown our way." —Marina Sofia, CrimeFictionLover blog
The Corpse with the Platinum Hair winner of the 2015 Bony Blithe, a crime writing award created by the board of directors of the Bloody Words Conference to shine a spotlight on light mysteries. It is akin to the Agatha Award in the United States.
"The Corpse with the Platinum Hair is a classic-style (no CSI forensics available), yet modern day (brilliant use of an electronic shutdown) locked room whodunit. As we meet the trapped suspects and the deceased through the inquiry by Cait and her sidekick, readers will relish this wonderful investigation by the dynamic Canadian couple." —Harriet Klausner, #1 Hall of Fame Amazon Reviewer
"This whodunit will make you want more with each turn of the page. You can't stop reading it once you start." —Shelley's Book Case Blog
"Strong story-telling and a fast paced ending." —Don Graves, Canadian Mystery reviews
"Cathy Ace has written an awesome mystery series that I look forward to reading more of." —Dalene's Book Reviews Blog
"An intriguing premise … Traditionalists will enjoy this mystery that plays with classic mystery conventions while also celebrating everything that makes Las Vegas so unique." —Kings River Life
"I've always loved locked-room mysteries, and this is a terrific one. A cast of characters (each of them with something to hide) marooned on the top floor of a swank Las Vegas casino with a corpse. A fun and suspenseful mystery." —Rhys Bowen, New York Times, bestselling author of the Molly Murphy and Royal Spyness Mysteries.
