Chutes and adders
By: Barbara Block.
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Light, Robin (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Women detectives -- New York (State) -- Syracuse -- Fiction.; Pet shops -- Fiction.; Widows -- Fiction.; Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Description: Recently widowed Robin Light runs Noah's Ark, a Syracuse pet shop specializing in puppies and parakeets, bunnies and boas. Robin can't resist rescuing a stray kitten - or finding the vicious killer who set her up to take the rap... for murder.

The package looked innocent enough... until it was opened and the rare, saw-backed viper attacked. By the time Robin got her co-worker to the hospital, he was dead, the cops had unearthed a small fortune in her shop's heating vent, and she'd been fingered as the prime suspect in a particularly nasty murder case.

Now, as Robin struggles to clear her name and to keep Noah's Ark afloat, she finds herself following a trail strewn with corpses... straying far from her pampered pets and into a den of venomous secrets where someone stalks her with the cold-blooded skill of a cobra... someone coiled and ready to strike.
Notes: "A Robin Light mystery"--Cover.