Death and the Delinquent

by B.J. Oliphant

Book Overview

Shirley McClintock is vacationing in New Mexico with her friend J.Q., her daughter Allison, and Allison's schoolmate April. While exploring a mesa on muleback, a sharpshooter wings Shirley's mule,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449147185
• ISBN13: 9780449147184
• Release Date: December 1992
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Another winner

This fourth book in a deftly written and very entertaining series features a change of locale. Shirley McClintock, friend J.Q. and foster daughter Allison are staying at a guest ranch in northern New Mexico. Of course, wherever Shirley is, things happen: a shooting that leaves the unpleasant daughter of a shady Middle Eastern businessman dead and Shirley hospitalized (she gets a new knee!); the kidnapping of a rich family's newborn son; the murder of a Pueblo woman; and the discovery of some valuable Indian pottery. As a onetime New Mexican, I really enjoyed the vivid evocation of the Land of Enchantment and its mix of cultures. Like all of B.J. Oliphant's mysteries, this one features intelligent, appealing characters and plenty of the sort of dialogue that makes you think.