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Death of a perfect mother

"Everybody in town knew Lill Hodsden. Most of them had a motive to kill her. Her mother was murderously mad at Lill's lack of morals. Her steady lover was sick to death of being blackmailed. Her neighbors were dying to get even with her. Her daughter's boyfriend would do anything to stop her from reporting him to the immigration officials. Her sons were determined to put an end to her overbearing ways. Her lover's invalid wife had developed a killer's instinct about her husband's tawdry affair. And since the rest of the townsfolk wanted to give the murderer a medal, Chief Inspector Dominic McHale found himself stumped on his very first homicide case -- puzzled by a lengthy list of likely suspects and a very clever killer"--Page 4 of cover.

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