The book that started it all for Edgar Award winner Sharyn McCrumb's widely acclaimed series featuring amateur sleuth Elizabeth MacPherson. When delicate Eileen Chandler is set to marry, her family fears the man is a fortune hunter. Thank goodness, Eileen's cousin Elizabeth MacPherson comes early for support. Unfortunately, Elizabeth also has some detecting to do, as a dead body is found, and none of the wedding party is above suspicion.... "A good deal of suspense...McCrumb writes with a sharp-pointed pen." LOS ANGELES TIMES Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Author Sharyn McCrumb was born in Wilmington, North Carolina on February 26, 1948. She graduated from the University of North Carolina and received an M.A. in English from Virginia Tech. Her novels primarily deal with the history and folklore of Appalachia. She has won numerous awards for her work including the Wilma Dykeman Award for Regional Historical Literature from the East Tennessee Historical Society, the Sherwood Anderson Short Story Award, the Appalachian Writer of the Year Award from Shepherd College, the Chaffin Award from Morehead State University, the Plattner Award from Berea College, and two Appalachian Writer's Association's Best Appalachian Novel Awards. Also, she has been writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee and Shepherd College in West Virginia and has lectured on her work at universities and libraries throughout the United States and Europe.

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