Murder at The Driskill - A Sydney Lockhart Mystery

Murder at The Driskill - A Sydney Lockhart Mystery

by Kathleen Kaska
Murder at The Driskill - A Sydney Lockhart Mystery

Murder at The Driskill - A Sydney Lockhart Mystery

by Kathleen Kaska

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Overview

Arts and Death in Austin, Texas

Changes are happening fast and furious for reporter Sydney Lockhart and her detective boyfriend Ralph Dixon. No sooner do they open their new detective agency, a high-profile case walks through the door. Stringer Maynard, an influential Austin businessman, wants business partner/brother-in-law Leland Tatum investigated before Tatum's campaign for governor begins. Tatum has been keeping company with an avante garde crowd whose activities might jeopardize his chances of winning the election.
Maynard invites Sydney and Dixon to the famous Driskill Hotel for Tatum's formal campaign announcement. Before they can meet the candidate, a gunshot sends them hurrying into the next suite where they discover Tatum shot dead. Suddenly, their professional services turn into a murder investigation. As the suspect list grows, Sydney acquires an unwanted partner; Lydia LaBeau, the twelve-year-old daughter of one of the potential murderers. To assist Sydney in clearing her father's name, Lydia dresses up like Sherlock Holmes and begins to collect her own bag of evidence. Much to Sydney's annoyance, Lydia proves to be the smarter detective.

"Sydney Lockhart is one of the feistiest, funniest P.I.'s in Texas--or anywhere else! '50s pop culture and a crowd of quirky characters make Kaska's latest mystery a killer read."
--Sheila Webster Boneham, author of Catwalk and the other Animals in Focus mysteries

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780990565598
Publisher: LL- Publications
Publication date: 11/05/2014
Pages: 266
Sales rank: 910,857
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Kathleen Kaska writes the award-winning Sydney Lockhart mystery series set in the 1950s when women were caught between the dichotomy of career and marriage; when fashion exploded with a never-before-seen flair; and movies and music had the country dancing with gusto. Her first mystery, Murder at the Arlington, won the 2008 Salvo Press Manuscript Contest. This book, along with her second mystery, Murder at the Luther, were selected as bonus-books for the Pulpwood Queens Book Group, the largest book group in the country. The third book in the series, Murder at the Galvez, published by LL-Publications, was released in 2012.

Before bringing Sydney into the world of murder and mayhem, Kathleen published three mystery-trivia books in the Classic Triviography Mystery Series: The Agatha Christie Triviography and Quiz Book, The Alfred Hitchcock Triviography and Quiz Book, and The Sherlock Holmes Triviography and Quiz Book. The Alfred Hitchcock and the Sherlock Holmes trivia books were finalists for the 2013 EPIC eBook Award in nonfiction.

Her nonfiction book, The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane: The Robert Porter Allen Story, was released by University Press of Florida in 2012.

When she is not writing, Kathleen and her husband spend much of their time traveling the back roads and byways around the country, looking for new venues for her mysteries and bird watching along the Texas coast and beyond. It was her passion for birds that led to the publication The Man Who Saved the Whooping Crane.
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