The Daffodil Blonde
During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . .
 
PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who lives there with his sister and daughter. But when Rob’s trainer is found dead, Pat is willing to bet it’s murder despite the local doctor’s verdict of suicide. The quest to find the truth will involve a fainting blonde at the Abbotts’ hotel and some of the more colorful citizens of Lexington in this suspenseful Golden Age classic featuring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective).
 
Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
“Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times

“[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review
 
“Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.” —The Miami News
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The Daffodil Blonde
During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . .
 
PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who lives there with his sister and daughter. But when Rob’s trainer is found dead, Pat is willing to bet it’s murder despite the local doctor’s verdict of suicide. The quest to find the truth will involve a fainting blonde at the Abbotts’ hotel and some of the more colorful citizens of Lexington in this suspenseful Golden Age classic featuring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective).
 
Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
“Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times

“[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review
 
“Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.” —The Miami News
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The Daffodil Blonde

The Daffodil Blonde

by Frances Crane
The Daffodil Blonde

The Daffodil Blonde

by Frances Crane

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Overview

During a stay in Kentucky horse country, a husband-and-wife detective team race to find a killer . . .
 
PI Pat Abbott and his wife, Jean, are vacationing in Kentucky horse country and visiting Pat’s old friend Rob Murray, who lives there with his sister and daughter. But when Rob’s trainer is found dead, Pat is willing to bet it’s murder despite the local doctor’s verdict of suicide. The quest to find the truth will involve a fainting blonde at the Abbotts’ hotel and some of the more colorful citizens of Lexington in this suspenseful Golden Age classic featuring “one of the more interesting married teams of detectives” (Thrilling Detective).
 
Praise for the Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
“Lively and exciting.” —The New York Times

“[A] well-plotted and mystifying case.” —Saturday Review
 
“Nasty characters and clues pointing off in all directions—quite good.” —The Miami News

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781504075398
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Publication date: 07/05/2022
Series: The Pat and Jean Abbott Mysteries
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 243
Sales rank: 1,007,571
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Frances Crane (1890 – 1981) was an American author. A former writer for The New Yorker, Crane was invited to leave Nazi Germany in the late 1930s after writing a number of unfavorable articles about Hitler. After settling in Taos, Crane introduced private investigator Pat Abbott and his future wife Jean in her first novel, The Turquoise Shop (1941). The Abbotts investigated crimes in a total of 26 volumes, each with a color in the title, with settings around the country and globe.
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