The case of the good-looking corpse
By: by Caroline Lawrence
Series: The Western mysteries -- 2; The P.K. Pinkerton mysteries -- 1; The P.K. Pinkerton mysteries -- 2; P.K. Pinkerton mysteries -- 1.; P.K. Pinkerton mysteries -- 2.
Publisher: Orion Children's
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781444001709
Subjects: Fiction; Juvenile fiction; Murder; Mystery and detective stories
Description: The death of sadistic desperado Whittlin Walt has created an opening for 'Chief of the Comstock Desperados'. Several young gunfighters are battling it out in the saloons and streets of Virginia City, and against this backdrop of gunmen, gamblers and cowboys, P.K. Pinkerton, Private Eye, is having trouble drumming up business. Nobody seems to take a 12-year-old detective seriously! Then a servant girl named Martha begs P.K. for help. She witnessed the murder of her mistress - a hurdy girl - and the killer knows it. Now he is after her. Martha gives P.K. a description of the killer and a cryptic clue, but then she disappears. Can P.K. solve the case and find Martha before the killer does?
Table of contents: title: P.K. Pinkerton, Private Eye, is having trouble drumming up business. Nobody seems to take a 12-year-old detective seriously! Then a servant girl named Martha begs P.K. for help. She witnessed the murder of her mistress; title: a hurdy girl; title: and the killer knows it. Now he is after her. Martha gives P.K. a description of the killer and a cryptic clue, but then she disappears. Can P.K. solve the case and find Martha before the killer does?