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Death and the Gentle Bull

✍ Scribed by Frances Lockridge

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road;Open Road Integrated Media
Year: 2017;2018
Tongue: English
Weight: 328 KB
Category: Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

Captain Heimrich has a beef with a killer after getting a bum steer in this mystery from the authors of the "excellent" Mr. and Mrs. North series (The New Yorker).

Capt. M. L. Heimrich of the New York State Police may not have the flash of hard-boiled city detectives, but there's no lead the intrepid investigator won't follow until his every hunch is satisfied . . .

Just as he's about to take a well-deserved break, Captain Heimrich is confronted with a fresh-faced officer who has a gut feeling about what should be an open-and-shut case. Trooper Crowley knows all the evidence points to Margaret Landcraft being trampled to death by Prince, Deep Meadow Farm's prize-winning Angus bull. But he also knows Prince to be a gentle giant and Mrs. Landcraft one of the sturdiest women around—something just doesn't add up.

Captain Heimrich isn't very familiar with cattle, but following hunches has never led him astray. He soon learns...

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