Parrots Prove Deadly: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noire
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Parrots will repeat anything. They don't talk sense—or do they? When Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain a foulmouthed African gray after its owner's death, she can't help hearing the parrot's words as a replay of a murder scene. But the doctor on call scoffs at the idea, and the heirs just want their late mother's pet to stop cursing. The only other possible witnesses being an evasive aide, a blind neighbor, and a single-minded service dog, Pru is stuck with what may be a featherbrained theory. Even her crotchety tabby Wallis doesn't buy it, although Wallis would be more than willing to "interrogate" the bird up close. Meanwhile, Pru, the bad-girl animal psychic, is also called on to deal with drugs, jealousy, and a potential rabies outbreak.
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Clea Simon. (2013). Parrots Prove Deadly: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noire. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Clea Simon. 2013. Parrots Prove Deadly: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noire. Blackstone Publishing.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Clea Simon, Parrots Prove Deadly: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noire. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.
MLA Citation (style guide)Clea Simon. Parrots Prove Deadly: A Pru Marlowe Pet Noire. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.
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February 25, 2013
A parrot proves a key murder witness in Simon’s clever third mystery featuring Pru Marlowe, a latter-day Doctor Dolittle, who practices in the Berkshire town of Beauville (after 2012’s Cats Can’t Shoot). When 84-year-old Polly Larkin, who lives in a room with her parrot, Randolph Jones, in a retirement complex, dies abruptly, Pru investigates. Pru determines that someone attempted to poison Randolph Jones, presumably to cover his or her tracks. Suspects include Polly’s two grown children; resident gerontologist Dr. Wachtell; Polly’s blind friend, Rose Danziger; and Rose’s aide, Genie. Pru meticulously pieces the clues together with psychic advice from a fuzzy crew of confidantes: her tabby, Wallis; Rose’s seeing-eye dog, Buster; Frank the ferret; and the neighbor’s bichon, Growler. Det. Jim Creighton, her on-again, off-again boyfriend, lends human assistance. Simon’s pithy dialogue and distinctive characterizations more than compensate for the predictable plot.
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