title: A Really Cute Corpse (Claire Malloy Mysteries, No. 4)
author:  Joan Hess 
description: Claire Malloy makes her fourth, and this time unremarkable, appearance as amateur sleuth when a beauty pageant attracts a would-be murderer. Rehearsing contestants are shocked when a sandbag suddenly drops from a catwalk, barely missing the reigning queen's head. After a fall disables the pageant director, Malloy reluctantly takes over, finding it hard to fathom that anyone would want to kill Farberville's own Miss Thurberfest. Evidence mounts, however, as a shot is fired at the queen's car and her dressing-room space-heater is tampered with. Giddy contestants, a suspicious theater manager, an intrepid agent and a handsome master-of-ceremonies who is also a senator are several of the unsurprising suspects. A few good lines surface from the endless exclamations and adjectives, but for the most part this fiction cliche is for only the inveterate Hess ( Dear Miss Demeanor ) fan. <br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  Copyright © 2020 Jennifer Munch
  
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  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any
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  [Title Page](index_split_000.html#filepos101)
  
  [Copyright](index_split_001.html#filepos460)
  
  [Chapter 1](index_split_003.html#filepos2255)
  
  [Chapter 2](index_split_004.html#filepos7540)
  
  [Chapter 3](index_split_005.html#filepos16510)
  
  [Chapter 4](index_split_006.html#filepos24414)
  
  [Chapter 5](index_split_007.html#filepos33056)
  
  [Chapter 6](index_split_008.html#filepos41379)
  
  [Chapter 7](in