02259cam a2200349 i 4500 623586370 TxAuBib 20210928120000.0 210616s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021941399 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda rda DLC rda TxAuBib DLC TxAuBib rda Albert, Susan Wittig, author. Hemlock / By Susan Wittig Albert. Large print. Waterville : Thorndike Press, 2021. 477 pages 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier China Bayles ; 28 "Herbalist China Bayles' latest adventure takes her to the mountains of North Carolina, where her friend Dorothea Harper serves as the director and curator of the Hemlock House Library, a priceless collection of rare gardening books housed in a haunted mountainside mansion that once belonged to Sunny Carswell, a reclusive heiress. But the most valuable book--A Curious Herbal, created by Elizabeth Blackwell in the 1730s--is missing and Dorothea is under suspicion. China's search for the thief takes on a new urgency when she discovers Miss Carswell's bookseller, the victim of an attempted murder. Is his shooting connected with the theft? And there are other urgent questions: What is the Hemlock Guild? Who owns Socrates.com? Did Sunny Carswell really kill herself, or does her ghost have a different story to tell? And what is the real truth behind the many tantalizing mysteries of A Curious Herbal? Hemlock is a compelling mix of mystery and herb lore, past secrets and present sins, and characters who are as real as your friends and neighbors--in an absorbing novel that only Susan Wittig Albert could create"-- Provided by publisher. 20210928. Bayles, China (Fictitious character) Fiction. Women detectives Fiction. Herbalists Fiction. Rare books Fiction. Mystery fiction. Large print books. lcgft Fiction. lcgft China Bayles ; 28. TXKPL