Bitter Finish

By Linda Barnes

Book Overview

"A fine job -- expertly written, with an ingenious wine caper set in the Napa Valley." The New York Times Book Review. A Michael Spraggue Mystery by the author of "Dead Heat." Michael Spraggue, a wealthy private eye turned movie actor, is in the middle of making a trashy Hollywood movie about -- what else? -- a private eye, when he gets a phone call from his sometime lover and current business partner in a California winery, Kate Holloway. Kate has troubling news. Not only has Lenny Brent, their volatile winemaker, vanished, but an unidentifiable corpse has appeared -- and Kate's the prime suspect! Spraggue hurries over in time to discover a second dead body -- that of Lenny. Can Spraggue solve this vintage mystery before he finds himself corked ?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312082363
• ISBN13: 9780312082369
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.