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Appearances of Death

by Dell Shannon · 1977

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Lieutenant Luis Mendoza celebrates his birthday with a more than usually exuberant outburst of murder and mayhem. What has happened to the abducted Nurse Bradley? What fiend could have tied up Lila Wescott and whipped her while she suffocated? And who can be trying to poison Mr and Mrs Beebe with arsenic? Mendoza puts his hunches to the test . . .

Genre
mysterymysteryMore like thisLess of thispolice proceduralpolice proceduralMore like thisLess of this
Themes
policepoliceMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1970s1970sMore like thisLess of thisCaliforniaCaliforniaMore like thisLess of thisLos AngelesLos AngelesMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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