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      The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites

      by J.S. Borthwick
      Published
      Oct 1982
      Main Genre
      Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
      Pages
      256
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      Series
      Sarah Deane & Alex McKenzie Book 1

      About This Book

      Sarah Deane takes a break from graduate school--and dreary mid-March Boston--and heads for sunny Southern Texas to join her boyfriend, Philip Lentz, on a birdwatching expedition.

      Philip's rare sighting of a pair of hook-billed kites gets things off to a great start. But when he ends up strangled by his binocular straps, the rest of the birders are both suspects and sitting ducks.

      Is the killer a member of the Hamburg Bird Club? Major "Big" Foster, who claims he also saw the kites? Or the pair of spinsters who run Cactus Wren Tours? When precocious thirteen-year-old Jeff Goldsmith disappears, Sarah teams up with Dr. Alex McKenzie for a crash course in detecting, to track down the killer before someone else becomes the next victim.

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      Book 1
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      Genres

      Suspense

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      Amateur Sleuth Cozy Mystery

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      Women Sleuths

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      Aug 1991 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312926045 ISBN10 0312926049
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      Nov 1983 Penguin ISBN13 9780140067859 ISBN10 014006785X
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      May 2023 Felony & Mayhem Press ISBN13 9781631942808 ISBN10 1631942808
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      First Edition Oct 1982 St. Martin's ISBN13 9780312123352 ISBN10 0312123353
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      Jan 1991 -- Not Selected ISBN10 B0CBNMQ644
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      Mar 2013 Audible Studios ISBN10 B00BNYYAE4
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