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Author Childs, Laura, author.

Title Pekoe most poison / Laura Childs.

Publication Info. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2017.
©2017

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  M CHILDS, L.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  MY CHILDS, L.    Storage
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Adult Fiction  F CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  MYSTERY CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Main Level  MYSTERY CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  F CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  MYSTERY CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  M CHILDS    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  M CHILDS, LAURA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 311 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Tea shop mystery ; #18
Childs, Laura. Tea shop mystery ; #18.
Note "Includes recipes and tea time tips"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-303).
Summary "When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a Rat Tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better public health. But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a fire starts at one of the tables and Doreen's entrepreneur husband suddenly goes into convulsions and drops dead. Has his favorite orange pekoe tea been poisoned? Theo smells a rat. The distraught Doreen soon engages Theo to pursue a discreet inquiry into who might have murdered her husband. As Theo and her tea sommelier review the guest list for suspects, they soon find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse ..."-- From publisher.
Subject Poisoning -- Fiction.
Murder -- Fiction.
City and town life -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Fiction.
Browning, Theodosia (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Charleston (S.C.) -- Fiction.
Browning, Theodosia (Fictitious character) (OCoLC)fst00839778
City and town life. (OCoLC)fst00862081
Detective and mystery stories. (OCoLC)fst00891461
Murder. (OCoLC)fst01029781
Poisoning. (OCoLC)fst01068142
South Carolina -- Charleston. (OCoLC)fst01204603
Genre/Form Detective and mystery fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726581.
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Other Form: Online version: Childs, Laura. Pekoe most poison. New York : Berkley Prime Crime, 2017 9780698197398 (DLC) 2016037965
ISBN 9780425281680 (hardcover)
042528168X (hardcover)
9780425281697 (paperback)
0425281698 (paperback)
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