by Wylly Folk St. John (1976)
Seventeen-year-old Libby Clark signs up for a writers' conference on mysteries and becomes entangled in a real-life murder mystery.
Rick Harsch
"This final volume of Rick Harsch's Driftless trilogy opens with a dead man floating face down in a municipal swimming pool, a bullet in his head, his hat and narrative still in place. The victim is a writer named Rick Harsh. Spleen, a newspaperman, twin brother of the hero of The Driftless Zone and a friend of the dead writer, arrives on the scene determined to solve the murder."--Page 4 of cover.
Linda Barnes
Agoraphobic Em Moore is the writing half of a biography team. Her partner, Teddy, does the schmoozing. When Teddy dies, Em is devastated, alone in a world she doesn't understand. The only way she can honor his memory is to finish their current book, an 'autobiography' of director Garrett Malcolm. She finds Malcolm friendlier and far sexier than she had imagined. But Em senses trouble between Malcolm and one of his former stars, and she hears whispers of skeletons in the Malcolm family closet.
James Howe
Not a great place to visit, and you wouldn't want to live there The Monroes have gone on vacation, leaving Harold and Chester at Chateau Bow-Wow—not exactly a four-star hotel. On the animals' very first night there, the silence is pierced by a peculiar wake-up call—an unearthly howl that makes Chester observe that the place should be called Howliday Inn. But the mysterious cries in the night (Chester is convinced there are werewolves afoot) are just the beginning of the frightening goings-on. Soon animals start disappearing, and there are whispers of murder. Is checkout time at Chateau Bow-Wow going to come earlier than Harold and Chester anticipated? ([source][1]) [1]:
Norah McClintock
Robyn's best friend Billy has been a mess ever since her other best friend Morgan dumped him. To make matters worse, Morgan started dating hockey star Sean Sloane right afterward. Billy is a vegetarian and an animal rights activist—he wouldn't hurt a fly. But when Sean winds up dead on the ice, Billy becomes the prime suspect. Can Robyn prove her friend's innocence?