IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH, A Margaret Spencer Mystery, by Gwendolyn Southin (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Gwendolyn Southin. Published by Studio 9 Books, Montreal, Quebec, 2002.  1st Edition. ULTRA RARE: Signed, Dated & Dedicated by the Author on title page TWICE! Once Flat Signed under her name, and the other is to a dear friend. Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor wear. Clean inside, tight spine.

IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH, Gwendolyn Southin is at her best in writing chase scenes, and she wrote a real page-turner with this one!

It's 1959 in Vancouver, and Margaret Spencer has moved out of her upscale Kerrisdale manor, left her stultifying marriage with Harry her pompous lawyer husband, and is living alone in a basement apartment in the trendy Vancouver suburb of Kitsilano. Happy in her job as assistant to detective Nat Southby, whom she has also taken as her lover, she is also harassed by Harry who wants her to give up and return to the upper middle-class life they once shared. Yearning to escape the pressure she decides to head north to the Cariboo District for a week on a dude ranch...Maggie is almost shot while looking for clues, the bodies pile up, and in a startling climax that takes place in the lightless shaft of an abandoned mine, Southby is the target and this time, Maggie does the saving...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Gwendolyn Southin is the author of four previous Margaret Spencer Mysteries—Death in a Family Way, In the Shadow of Death, Death on a Short Leash, and Death as a Last Resort. Long involved in writers' circles and writing workshops, she also helped organize various book festivals in her community.

For more info on this Author, please see: Cozy Mysteries | Bio | Gwendolyn Southin