A Botanist at Bay

Published
Jan 1985
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Amateur Sleuth Amateur Sleuth
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210

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Celia Grant, botanist and amateur sleuth, is on her way to New Zealand, where her daughter is about to have a baby.

She also plans, at the request of her friend the Duchess Hermione, to look for Uncle Bertie, Lord Albert Melton, whose strange disappearance is made even more puzzling by his photos of some very rare plants and a very naked redhead.

Upon her arrival, Celia learns that the redhead is Rosie Murphy, a radical member of New Zealand's Parliament, and a leader of an environmentalist battle against a dam that would endanger certain rare wild plants. Trouble is that Celia and her new friend, fellow botanist Tom MacRae, are certain those plants, the very ones found in Uncle Bertie's photos, aren't wild, aren't endangered, and were obviously recently transplanted at the proposed dam site!

Suddenly Rosie Murphy is murdered, and Celia Grant is the prime suspect! Can Celia combine her horticultural and investigative skills to learn the truth about the plants, find Uncle Bertie, and clear her name?

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First Edition Sep 1986 Ballantine ISBN 0345330234
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Jan 1985 Gollancz (UK) ISBN 0575035803
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Oct 1985 Scribner ISBN 068418432X
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Mar 1989 Magna Large Print ISBN 1850575592
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