The Body on the Bed (A Mary Fanning Mystery, Band 1) - Softcover

Krishtalka, Leonard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1941237495 ISBN 13: 9781941237496

Verlag: Anamcara Press LLC, 2021

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Reporter Mary Fanning finds the body on the bed, poisoned. Mary finds the body on the bed in the house next door. Smart, tough and inquisitive, she covers the murder trial as the first woman reporter for the Kansas Daily Tribune. Amid the upheaval of post-Civil War Lawrence, she unravels the diabolical plots and desperate lives that led to three dead bodies and a shocking last act.Did a doctor's brazen affair with his patient's wife incite him to murder? On the morning of April 28, 1871, the body of Isaac Miles Ruthman is found poisoned in his bed in Lawrence, Kansas. His doctor, John J. Medlicott, a fervent churchgoer, is arrested and charged with first degree murder. He's carrying a picture of Ruthman's wife, Anne Catherine, and two of her love poems in his wallet. He'd visited Ruthman the previous evening to give him a medicinal powder--a poison cocktail of deadly nightshade and morphine, according to the autopsy. Is it a coincidence that the doctor's wife, Sarah, died suddenly and mysteriously just four months earlier? Did Medlicott first kill her, then Ruthman? Or did Ruthman commit suicide, depressed over his finances and ill health--authorities had to break into his bedroom when they found the door locked from the inside.Mary Fanning, sharp, strong-willed, and the first woman correspondent for the Kansas Daily Tribune, is assigned to report on the trial and investigate Ruthman's poisoning. Her independence leads her to fight for suffrage for women and Blacks in post-Civil War Kansas. Her ardor leads her into an illicit love affair with a woman. Her incisive mind leads her to uncover lives torn by lust, obsession, and deceit, a trail of dead victims, and the fiendish scheme behind the body on the bed."A thrilling tale of murder and betrayal ... a defiant suffragist ... a lurid web of deceit ... impeccably researched."~Kirkus Reviews

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Leonard Krishtalka enjoys two careers--one as novelist, essayist, and author, the other as paleontologist, museum director and evolutionary biologist. As a novelist, he uses the mystery genre to excavate the human condition. His award-winning series of Harry Przewalski novels, The Bone Field, Death Spoke, The Camel Driver, and Native Blood, are detective thrillers, each a human intrigue wrapped inside an anthropological intrigue. Each unravels the dirty underbelly of people's lives--the love, loss, betrayal, treachery, fraud, and murder buried beneath petrified shards, skin and bones.Krishtalka has authored two historical fiction novels, The Body on the Bed, and its sequel, The Body on the Bricks. Both feature crime reporter Mary Fanning, who investigates shocking murders and covers the sensational trials, all amid the social upheaval of 1870s post-Civil War Kansas.Krishtalka has also written a regular column for the Lawrence Journal-World and for Carnegie Magazine, with an acclaimed book of collected natural history essays, Dinosaur Plots.As a paleontologist, Krishtalka has worked on fossil-hunting expeditions throughout western Canada and the US, Patagonia, Europe, China, Kenya and Ethiopia, unearthing and studying the remains of past life and cultures of the planet, including dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and hominids--human ancestors. He has held academic posts at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, the University of Pittsburgh, the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, and The University of Kansas, Lawrence.Krishtalka lives in Lawrence, the central setting for two Przewalski novels, Death Spoke and its sequel, Native Blood, and for both Mary Fanning novels, The Body on the Bed and The Body on Bricks.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Anamcara Press LLC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1941237495
• ISBN 13: 9781941237496
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
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