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Pekoe most poison / Laura Childs.
When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a rat tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns that these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better public health. But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a first starts at one of the tables and Doreen's entrepreneur husband suddenly goes into convulsions and drops dead. Has someone poisoned his favorite orange pekoe tea? Theo smells a rate. The distraught Doreen soon engages Theo to pursue a discreet inquiry into who might have murdered her husband. As Theo and her tea sommelier review the guest list for suspects, they soon find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse...
Record details
- ISBN: 9780425281697 (mass market paperback) :
- Physical Description: 311 pages ; 18 cm
- Edition: Berkley Prime Crime mass market edition.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2017
- Copyright: ©2017.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes recipes from the Indigo Tea Shop, tea time tips, and tea resources. Includes an excerpt from Plum Tea Crazy by Laura Childs. |
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| Subject: | Browning, Theodosia (Fictitious character) > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Poisoning > Fiction. Women detectives > South Carolina > Charleston > Fiction. Charleston (S.C.) > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Mystery fiction. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Burns Lake Public Library | PB MY (Text) | 35198000655580 | Paperbacks (Mystery) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Kitimat Public Library | PBK Chi (Text) | 32665001935339 | Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Terrace Public Library | PB CHI (Text) | 35151001061738 | Adult Paperbacks - Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Birtle | Mystery CHI (Text) | 35419002792266 | Adult Paperbacks | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Bowsman | Mystery CHI (Text) | 35419002792274 | Adult Paperbacks | Available | - | |
| Quesnel Branch | PB CHI (Text) | 33923005982107 | Mystery | Volume hold | Available | - |
