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001 ocn956775274
003 OCoLC
005 20180722223737.0
008 160815s2017 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2016031063
040 _aDLC
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020 _a9780425281680
_q(hardcover)
020 _a042528168X
_q(hardcover)
035 _a(OCoLC)956775274
042 _apcc
043 _an-us-sc
092 _aChilds
_bLaura
049 _aNFGA
100 1 _aChilds, Laura,
_eauthor.
_92340
245 1 0 _aPekoe most poison /
_cLaura Childs.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bBerkley Prime Crime,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a311 pages ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aTea shop mystery ;
_v#18
500 _aIncludes recipes and tea time tips"--Book jacket.
520 _a"When Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is invited by Doreen Briggs, one of Charleston's most prominent hostesses, to a Rat Tea, she is understandably intrigued. As servers dressed in rodent costumes and wearing white gloves offer elegant finger sandwiches and fine teas, Theo learns these parties date back to early twentieth-century Charleston, where the cream of society would sponsor so-called rat teas to promote city rodent control and better public health. But this party goes from odd to chaotic when a fire starts at one of the tables and Doreen's entrepreneur husband suddenly goes into convulsions and drops dead. Has his favorite orange pekoe tea been poisoned? Theo smells a rat. The distraught Doreen soon engages Theo to pursue a discreet inquiry into who might have murdered her husband. As Theo and her tea sommelier review the guest list for suspects, they soon find themselves drawn into a dangerous game of cat and mouse..."--
_cFrom publisher.
500 _aSequel to: Devonshire scream.
650 0 _aPoisoning
_vFiction.
_970430
650 0 _aMurder
_vFiction.
_91034
650 0 _aCity and town life
_zSouth Carolina
_zCharleston
_vFiction.
_9148147
655 7 _aDetective and mystery fiction.
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_9464
800 1 _aChilds, Laura.
_tTea shop mystery ;
_v#18.
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994 _aC0
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