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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425148983
ISBN number: 042514898X
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 272
Printing Date: August 01, 1995
Publishing house: Berkley
Sale Popularity Level: 182080
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When a prominent animal researcher is murdered, the Cat Lady, an aggressive animal rights activist and friend to China Bayles, is held for questioning, and it is up to China to find out who the true killer really is. Reprint. PW.
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A prominent and greatly disliked professor and animal researcher at the
local university is found hanging from a pipe in his office while a mob of
PETA protestors yell in the student quad below. What appeared to be suicide
at very first glance begins to look more and more like murder, and evidence seems
to be pointing at China's eccentric friend, known to most as the Cat Lady, a
biology professor in the same department who has a genuine love and concern
for animals of all kinds and a hobby of rescuing strays. But China knows
Dottie Riddle well enough to know that she could never be capable of murder,
and she enlists the help of her best friend, Ruby Wilcox, and an old
colleague from her days as a high-power defense attorney in Austin, to get
to the bottom of it.
Unlike other books from this series that I've read, herbs take a back seat
in this story, which I found almost odd, considering that's the crux of the
series, I thought. Anyway, the writing was good and the story unfolded
well. I suspected the correct culprit about halfway through the book, long
before China had a clue.
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Not only is the story intriguing, but if you are interested in herbal lore this book is excellent. All of the China Bayles books have an interesting plot with many twists and turns.
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I have greatly enjoyed the China Bayles series, so I am sorry to say that "Hangman's Root" does not do these books justice. I found the mystery incredibly uninteresting-- it revolved around office politics at a university & animal rights, which seemed interesting at the outset, but the plot just never came together. I think one of the main problems was China's knack for rambling off subject into background information. These asides really slowed down the plot, & I could barely finish the book. If you are a very first time reader to this series, don't judge China Bayles by "Hangman's Root."
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I love the whole series! I love the characters, the plots, the herbal references! Quick fun reading- a real page turner!
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Susan Wittig Albert's third mystery of the China Bayles series, "Hangman's Root", is a solid mystery, with a surprising killer, and a murder victim with a history of doing horrible, sadistic things to people and animals. China's friend, Dottie Riddle, a biology professor and a "cat lady" is the prime suspect in the murder of the sadistic Dr. Harwick, a colleague. Soon China finds that extortion, embezzlement, and deep hatred figure into this killing. Meanwhile, China and Mike are trying to find a house that they could both move into, with some comic results, and Rudy is trying to deal with a reunion with the daughter she gave up years ago. Not quite as good as "Witches Bane", but the sotry introduces us to some intriguing new characters.
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