On the rocks
Subtitle: a Willa Cather and Edith Lewis mystery
By: Sue Hallgarth
Publisher: Arbor Farm Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780985520007
Subjects: Fiction
Description: The year is 1929 and Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Willa Cather and her partner Edith Lewis are summering on Grand Manan, an island in the Bay of Fundy. In their cottage's sparsely-furnished attic room, Cather is at work writing 'Shadows on the Rock, ' her tenth novel. Relaxing after a hectic winter of working at a New York City ad agency, J. Walter Thompson, Edith is painting watercolors from the cliffs hundred feet above the rising tides of Whale Cove. Out of the corner of her eye, Edith sees a body plunge from the edge of a cliff to the rocks below ...