Walking Dead Man: An Edwina Crusoe Mystery
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ISBN: 0312083335 / Publisher: St Martins Pr, November 1992
When a young woman named Theresa Whitlock confides in her that she has murdered a man and now he is out to kill her, nurse-turned-sleuth, Edwina Crusoe dismisses the case as nonsense until Theresa turns up dead
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Walking Dead Man is the fourth in Mary Kittredge's medical mystery series featuring ex-nurse-turned-sleuth Edwina Crusoe. In this novel, Edwina leaves New Haven's Chelsea Memorial Hospital, her usual milieu, when a young woman named Theresa Whitlock approaches her for help; apparently Theresa has murdered a man, and now he is trying to kill her. Edwina dismisses the case as insanity, but when Theresa is shot dead after leaving her office, Edwina changes her mind and investigates. What she learns about Theresa's past, and about the man she claimed to have murdered, leads Edwina into a dangerous maze of double cross and deception.Besides which, she has a terrible toothache.
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