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The Hanging Garden

A Celia Grant Mystery

Botanist-sleuth Celia Grant flies to Madeira to settle her dead niece’s estate, and small anomalies draw her into a web of suspicious characters, missing children, stolen orchids and blackmail.

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Who this edition suits

Best for: A reader drawn to gardens and botanical mysteries.

A botanist sleuth and an orchid thread give this story a different hook from the historical and espionage mysteries on the shelf.

Consider: The gardening connection is part of a fictional crime story, not a source on Madeira flora.

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Author
John Sherwood
Edition year
1992
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
ISBN-13
9780684194295

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