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O' artful death / Sarah Stewart Taylor.
Van Pelt Library PS3620.A97 O144 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Sarah Stewart.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women art historians--Fiction.
- Women art historians.
- Vermont.
- Drowning victims--Fiction.
- Drowning victims.
- Artist colonies--Fiction.
- Artist colonies.
- Boston (Mass.)--Fiction.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Vermont--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Mystery fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 277 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martins Minotaur, 2003.
- Summary:
- Newcomer Sarah Stewart Taylor delivers a wonderfully atmospheric cozy and academic mystery featuring Sweeney St. George, a Boston art historian who becomes interested in Byzantium, Vermont, an art colony that flourished in the nineteenth century. Sweeney is especially attracted to the gravestone of a girl who drowned mysteriously in 1890; the haunting unsigned sculpture that marks her grave is of extremely high quality. She wants to find the artist.
- When the friend who showed her the gravestone invites Sweeney to visit his relatives in Byzantium for Christmas, she jumps at the chance. But by the time they arrive, her interest in the girl and the sculpture has gotten around town, and in fact, seems to have disturbed a killer. For one of the girl's descendants has been murdered. Plagued by a series of recent burglaries in town, Byzantium's residents are understandably nervous.
- Taylor has written a remarkably accomplished debut mystery in the traditional cozy vein.
- ISBN:
- 0312307640
- OCLC:
- 51389336
- Online:
- Publisher description
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