Roll Over and Play Dead
Joan Hess, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (244p) ISBN 978-0-312-05956-9
Agreeing to care for two basset hounds while their elderly owner is away, bookseller Claire Malloy is introduced to the underworld of pet snatchers.redundant, if they're stolen When the hounds left in her care disappear, Claire discovers other neighborhood pets in her small university town are also missing. A check at the animal shelter turns up the information that the unsavory Newton Churls runs an operation licensed to sell animals for medical research. An official inspection, authorized by an unwilling sheriff, proves unavailing. The bereft pet owners and Claire's teenage daughter Caron attempt a nighttime commando raid; when Claire follows them, she finds Churls torn to death by his pit bulls. On the lam to keep up the search and avoid being called as a material witness, Claire is attacked by several unsavory country boys at an animal sale; a ransom demand further complicates the case. Hess again provides lively and diverting entertainment via her brash and articulate detective, last seen in A Diet to Die For . (July)
Details
Reviewed on: 07/01/1991
Release date: 07/01/1991
Genre: Fiction
Hardcover - 244 pages - 9780312059569
Mass Market Paperbound - 199 pages - 9780345375865
Mass Market Paperbound - 208 pages - 9780312988289
Hardcover - 204 pages - 9781447279006
Other - 208 pages - 9781466807617
Paperback - 204 pages - 9781447279013