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Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The morgue is that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary but, to many of us, dreadful work. Less familiar is its dry and dusty version, usually housed in the bowels of newspaper buildings, where old story clippings are filed away. Dolly Madison Sprowls has been in charge of The Hannawa Herald-Union’s morgue for more than 40 years. She is gruff and salty, well past the age of retirement, the unchallenged queen of her...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the newspaper “morgue” and do her job, and hopes the editors stay in the newsroom and do theirs. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. She figures that those women must hire the cabby every week to drive them from garage sale to garage sale. And wouldn’t that make a great...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union on the stroke of nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today.
First she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murdered at the abandoned landfill where the eccentric archaeology professor was conducting his latest dig. And, just like that,...