As I read this one I kept wondering whether it was part of a series--the author kept making passing references to the personal life and history of her detective character. And sure enough, a quick search of Google confirmed my suspicions. Margaret Page Hood wrote a number of books starring Deputy Sheriff Gil Donan, of Fox Island, Maine. Evidently Fox Island was one of those quiet little rural communities with a high murder rate. They're oddly common in detective fiction!They Called Her A Wanton,the people of Fox Island, but Jeanne Marie was only young and full of high spirits.Her constant teasing flirtations, with any man and even with his own brother, were meaningless--or so Jeanne Marie's husband told himself.Until the night he found her lying on her bed in a flimsy nightgown. Dead. With his dead brother beside her.And found himself the chief suspect for a double murder.
Monday, February 1, 2016
The Murders on Fox Island by Margaret Page Hood (Dell, 1960)
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