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The mining village of Drumclash, Ireland, circa 1950, is all abuzz when irascible curmudgeon Jason Prendergast dies after dining on honey taken from his own hives. In a town filled with eccentric characters, suspects abound, including the bees themselves. There's Penrose, the morose chauffeur, and Vera, the vamping maid; throw in a couple of traveling thespians, some curious cousins, and a peculiar partner, and you have a typical Pim crew of likely candidates. Not one to fly off course, the head of the investigating Civic Guards gets a particular bee in his bonnet and suspects Phoebe, Prendergast's niece and caregiver. Doubting that sweet Phoebe was involved in murder, professional lawyer and amateur apiarist Edward Gildea makes a beeline to come to her defense, a task that keeps him as busy as a bee in the second Pim detective novel to be reissued in the U.S., following Common or Garden Crime [BKL My 1 01]. Whether she's holding forth on beekeeping lore or explaining the traits of mineral ore, Pim enthusiastically educates as much as she entertains. Carol Haggas
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