Privy to the Dead

Authors: Connolly, Sheila
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC022040, FIC022000, FIC022070
ISBN: 9780698150645, Related ISBNs: 0425273466, 0698150643, 9780425273463, 9780698150645
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 304,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: In the latest Museum Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Razing the Dead, a suspicious death has Nell Pratt down in the dumps…
 
Nell Pratt, president of the Pennsylvania Antiquarian Society, has something to smile about thanks to a generous donation from a major Philadelphia developer who’s willing to help update their museum. But renovations have barely begun when a man is struck by a car in front of the building and killed.
 
The victim is a construction worker who found a curious metal object while excavating an old privy in the museum’s basement. Nell thinks the death is somehow connected to the Society, and her suspicions are confirmed when an antiques expert reveals a link between the objects from the cellar and a fellow staff member’s family.
 
Now Nell must unearth a mystery with ties to the past and the present. Because when someone is willing to kill over scrap metal, there’s no telling what they’ll do next…
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