Death on the Diagonal
Nero Blanc

Crossword editor Belle Graham hears that the devastating fire at the Collins family stables may have been a torch job. Former Prohibition-era bootleggers, the Collinses morphed into legitimate Newcastle high society. Rich and shameless, they feud amongst themselves as the aged patriarch enjoys marriage to a woman younger than his children-who have been pushed aside by their new step-mom.

Belle's P.I. hubby, Roscoe, is investigating the fire for the insurance company. The blaze is being blamed on the barn manager, a hard drinker who was sober enough to rescue the horses before being knocked into a coma. As Roscoe searches through a haystack of clues, Belle's guessing that someone in the Collins family already knows the answers.

(A Crossword Mystery)
Berkley, July 2006
Featuring: Belle Graham
ISBN #0425209989
288 pages Trade Size
$14.00

Also by Nero Blanc:
Death on the Diagonal, July 2007
A Crossworder's Delight, October 2006
Another Word for Murder, June 2006
Wrapped Up In Crosswords, October 2005
A Crossworder's Delight, October 2005
Another Word for Murder, July 2005
Anatomy Of A Crossword, June 2005
Wrapped Up in Crosswords, November 2004
A Crossworder's Gift, October 2004
Anatomy of a Crossword, July 2004
Corpus de Crossword, June 2004
A Crossworder’s Gift, October 2003
A Crossword to Die For, July 2003
The Crossword Connection, July 2001
The Crossword Murder, October 2000
Two Down, July 2000

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