title: The Historical Society Murder Mystery
author:  Graham Landrum 
description: Borderville, straddling the state line between Tennessee and Virginia, is the site of a fourth social-club mystery (after The Sensational Music Club Mystery, 1994) in which Landrum pulls off some nifty plotting. When local society matron Alberta Chamberlain dies, she leaves a Charles Wilson Peale portrait of the then-future French king Louis-Philippe to the Ambrose County Historical Society. A visiting art expert informs Helen Delaporte, Historical Society president, that the painting is a fake. Almost two weeks later, Randy Hartwell, leader of the local art scene, is found stabbed to death in his home after one of his bohemian parties. Randy, it turns out, was living well beyond his income. Unraveling Randy's murder means a look into the past of a man who believed that he was an artistic genius though he had little more than average ability. The investigation is a lark, for the most part, and suspects accommodatingly confess whatever is required of them. Narrated in a first-person relay of amateur sleuths (Helen; her husband, Henry; her friend, Harriet Bushrow), the story consistently maintains the light tone of club women gossiping over tea and sandwiches served with lots of froth and a dash of absurdity. <br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ACT OF  
  MURDER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Also by John Bishop
  
  Act of Deception
  
  Act of Revenge
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACT OF  
  MURDER
  
  A DOC BRADY MYSTERY
  
  John Bishop, MD
  
  MANTID PRESS
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Act of Murder  
  A Doc Brady Mystery  
  Copyright © 2019 by John Bishop. All rights reserved.
  
  ISBN: 978-1-7342511-0-4 (paperback)  
  ISBN: 978-1-7342511-1-1 (eBook)  
  Published by Mantid Press
  
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