B.J. Oliphant

A Shirley McClintock Mystery

1 - Dead in the Scrub (Mar-1990)
2 - The Unexpected Corpse (Dec-1990)
3 - Deservedly Dead (Jun-1992)
4 - Death and the Delinquent (Feb-1993)
5 - Death Served Up Cold (Dec-1994)
6 - A Ceremonial Death (Jan-1996)
7 - Here's to the Newly Deads (Sep-1997)

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  Dead in the Scrub
  

  • Mar-1990
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 1
  

  TWO PEOPLE WENT INTO THE DENSE WOOD OF COLORADO SCRUB OAK. ONLY ONE CAME OUT. Intrepid rancher Shirley McClintock hasn't seriously lost her temper for two or three weeks, but when, struggling to put a wounded deer out of its misery, she stumbles o...

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  The Unexpected Corpse
  

  • Dec-1990
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 2
  

  UNCLE JANUARY'S ASHES ARE BLOWING IN THE WIND AND A KILLER IS ON THE MOVE. While vacationing in England, Uncle January and :his third wife, Billie-B, are killed by a London van. Their ashes are brought home to Colorado by Billie-B's devoted daught...

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  Deservedly Dead
  

  • Jun-1992
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 3
  

  THE OLD JEWELL PLACE HAS FALLEN ON EVIL DAYS. The new owner has drained the wetlands, poisoned the scrub, destroyed the wildlife; and the screaming machines are still at it. Neighbor Shirley McClintock is just about ready to kill. So when the inev...

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  Death and the Delinquent
  

  • Feb-1993
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 4
  

  THE INDIANS SAY SCARY THINGS HAPPEN TO PEOPLE WHO VENTURE Shirley McClintock, vacationing in New Mexico with her friend J. Q., her daughter Allison, and Allison's schoolmate April, wishes she'd heard about the mesa's bad reputation earlier. She mi...

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  Death Served Up Cold
  

  • Dec-1994
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 5
  

  THE RECLUSIVE GUEST IN FROG HOUSE HAS A KILLER OF A HEADACHE.... And kill her it does. Doctors and police are baffled and innkeeper Shirley McClintock is dismayed--for the poor soul seems to have died for no good reason. She leaves behind absolute...

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  A Ceremonial Death
  

  • Jan-1996
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 6
  

  Shadow Dancer Was Readying Her Hogan For A Healing Ceremony -- and Her Own Terrible Death....
  
  And the beautiful cosmic healer, nee Bridget McCree, had not been dead long when her neighbor Shirley McClintock found her viciously mutilated body.<...

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  Here's to the Newly Deads
  

  • Sep-1997
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Shirley McClintock Mystery - 7
  

  WHEN MURDER PAYS A VISIT, THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. They were scarcely more than children, these lovebirds lying dead in a New Mexico Canyon. Shirley McClintock, owner of the Santa Fe guest ranch where they were staying, is baffled by the tragedy. Es...

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  The Library Window
  

  • Jan-2007
  • / Suspense
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  This masterpiece of short fiction, narrated in first-person by a woman remembering a summer in her girlhood, is both a ghost story and a Kunstlerroman (novel of the artist's life) in miniature, in which Oliphant explores the possibilities and conflic...

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