The Skirt Man

by Shelly Reuben

Every small town has an eccentric or two, and Killdeer, New York, is no exception. Morgan Mason attracts more than a few stares when he drives through town on his ramshackle tractor wearing a skirt.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151010781
• ISBN13: 9780151010783
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The Skirt Man-Shelly Reuben

I have found all of Shelly Reuben's books to be very entertaining, educational and intriquing. This book is well worth reading.

A very enjoyable education

Annie Bly is someone I would like to be best friends with. She is smart, she is so witty and very, very sharp. I was a little surpised to see one of the reviews lamenting the author's use of women as weak characters. I certainly did not get that feeling while reading this completely entertaining book. The elements of fire in this story are so interesting, but made even more so by being inter-mingled in the ever-increasing mystery of who killed The Skirt Man. I feel like I learned a lot, but I also felt completely entertained and satisfied with a surprising outcome.

Agatha Christie Redux?

A worthy successor to Tabula Rasa, Weeping, Spent Matches and her other works, The Skirt Man should expand Shelly Reuben's cult of arson murder mystery afficianados to the general reader. It brings back local newspaper reporter Annie Bly, a younger Miss Marple, her state trooper husband Sebastian, and arson investigator Billy Nightingale and the Upstate New York town of Killdeer and its inhabitants. Ms. Reuben, a private investigatior, not only knows her subject, she's a crackajack writer who brilliantly captures what it's like today to live in less than idyllic James Fenimore Cooper country. Both the good guys and the bad guys come alive and the novel keeps you on the edge of your seat until the surprise ( you'll never guess it) and satisfying ending. You not only find out who murdered the Skirt Man, a local farmer, but why he wore a skirt as he plowed his fields on his tractor.