No Body (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 3) [Mass Market Paperback]

Nancy Pickard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 1987

A Simon & Schuster eBook

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Like Pickard's Generous Death and Say No to Murder, the third story featuring Jenny Cain is fast-moving, sparked by humor and an unusual plot. Jenny, still serving as the head of the Port Frederick Civic Foundation, relates events that stun the population in her New England town when a mud slide reveals the disappearance of 133 bodies, supposedly interred during the 19th century in the old cemetery. At the same time, the corpse of Sylvia Davis is found in the casket with John Rudolph just before he's due to be buried in the new cemetery. The next day, Rudolph's widow is murdered, and Jenny sets out to gather evidence on possible killers. Her prime suspect is a young gravedigger and drug addict who dominates the center stage in macabre scenes before Jenny solves the puzzle of the town's vanished ancestors and identifies the present-day evildoer. Paperback rights to Pocket Books.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 255 pages
• Publisher: Pocket; later printing edition (November 1, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671734296
• ISBN-13: 978-0671734299
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,551,112 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not bad., July 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No Body (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

I actually liked this book better than Nancy Pickard's book "Bum Steer". The plot doesn't really lead the reader to a point where you can solve the mystery. I actually thought I had solved it twice. But it is pretty interesting anyway, although almost impossible to solve based on the clues. It also contains some bad language so sensitive readers beware.

4.0 out of 5 stars What happened to the Corpse?, July 8, 2010

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Nash Black "Troubadour" (Jamestown, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: No Body (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 3) (Paperback)

Nancy Pickard's 3rd mystery in the Jenny Cain series, NO BODY is a puzzle within a puzzle, which will have you guessing in this well plotted who-done-it.
Jenny discovers that all the graves in the historic community cemetery who someone falls into an empty grave. But who killed an employee of the local funeral home and staged a joke with the body? Jenny must find a killer before she ends up planted in her own cemetery.
Nash Black, author of QUALIFYING LAPS.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mystery!, August 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: No Body (Jenny Cain Mysteries, No. 3) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a great mystery that will leave you puzzling over murders as well as hundred-year-old missing corpses. So many clues leave you guessing and then surprized in the end! I highly recommend this as well as all the Jenny Cain mysteries!!!