title: The Silver Scapel: A Devon MacDonald Mystery
author:  Nancy Baker Jacobs 
description: In a gripping feminist mystery that's sure to raise a few hackles, Jacobs ( A Slash of Scarlet ) pits series sleuth Devon MacDonald against a posse of right-wing vigilantes. After two women die in the firebombing of a Minnesota medical center where abortions are performed, PI MacDonald is hired by Monica Hammond to find her 16-year-old sister, Kerry, who has vanished. The sisters' puritanical parents believe Kerry has gone to church camp, but Monica says Kerry had spoken of "a friend" who wanted to end a pregnancy. In Kerry's ultra-conservative hometown, MacDonald encounters a large right-to-life contingent led by a hypocritical, money-grubbing minister and is soon assaulted (with the blade of the title) by two rabidly "pro-life" men. While some readers may reject Jacobs' damning portrayals of religious zealots and anti-abortion tactics, her depictions of such events as a right-to-life meeting and a blockade of a women's clinic are even-handed. With a savvy heroine, unremitting action and a final twist of the plot, Jacobs adroitly constructs her mystery around a smoldering topic. <br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **Spin Dry**
  
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   **Greg Hollingshead**  
    
    
    
    
    
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
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   **Contents**
  
  Cover
  
  Title Page
  
  ONE
  
  TWO
  
  THREE
  
  FOUR
  
  FIVE
  
  SIX
  
  EPILOGUE
  
  About the Author
  
  Praise for _Spin Dry_
  
  Copyright
  
  About the Publisher
  
   **ONE**
  
  The address on Forebay Rack Road in the Millpond Industrial Park that Dr.
  Silver had given Rachel turned out to be concrete block fronted with opaque,
  tea-coloured glass and divided into number units of varying sizes. _Hodge
  Moving_ was squeezed into No. 3 and _ComputerGrafix_ into the phone booth-like
  No. 17, but Dr. Silver’s Morgan was parked almost at the very end, in front of
  the comparative sprawl of No. 23: _The Silver Dream Research Centre_.
  
  Rachel parked her Civic right up next to Silver’s Morgan, which of course was
  silver and had licence plates that said DREAM. She was late, almost clipped
  its rear fender. Back at the house she had got into one of those shock bag-
  packing states where the packer packs as if in the