Laura W. Douglas

From cover: The conference grounds for the sprawling writers' conference and beautiful, sprawling Crooknose Inn were definitely not places that one would associate with violence. Yet one morning, Robert Urge, publisher, was found dead on the peaceful banks of Paddle Down River, his magnificent profile clearly etched in the pale light of dawn.

Virginia Crane--"Gin"--was no stranger to excitement. She seemed to have a knack for being around when something was about to happen. And Gin arrived that morning to join her fiance, reporter "Red" Mulvaney. It didn't take the two amateur sleuths long to come to the conclusion that plagiarism was at the bottom of Urge's death. But who had plagiarized whom? And why had the eminently respectable Urge been murdered?… (mais)