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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherSt. Martin's Press
ISBN-100312038542
ISBN-139780312038540
eBay Product ID (ePID)2120489
Product Key Features
Publication Year1989
TopicMystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Book TitleKill the Messenger
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorElizabeth Daniels Squire
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight352.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN89-027132
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIsaiah Justice, owner and publisher of a small-town newspaper called The Defender, is dead from cyanide poisoning. His death makes the front page of his newspaper and becomes the focus of an investigation by the paper's top reporters: Howard Justice, the Old Man's son, and Leeroy Hicks, who comes from humbler origins. Then The Defender's major stockholders receive a takeover bid from the Gemtrex Group, a large, shady corporation that had been trying to buy the Old Man out when he was murdered. Did Gemtrex have the Old Man killed? Howard and Leeroy must find out within forty-eight hours ...