The Case of the Hook-Billed Kites

By J.S. Borthwick

Book Overview

Sarah Deane takes a break from graduate school-and dreary mid-March Boston-and heads for sunny Southern Texas to join her boyfriend, Philip Lentz, on a birdwatching expedition. Philip's rare sighting of a pair of hook-billed kites gets things off to a great start. But when he ends up strangled by his binocular straps, the rest of the birders are both suspects and sitting ducks. Is the killer a member of the Hamburg Bird Club? Major "Big" Foster, who claims he also saw the kites? Or the pair of spinsters who run Cactus Wren Tours? When precocious thirteen-year-old Jeff Goldsmith disappears, Sarah teams up with Dr. Alex McKenzie for a crash course in detecting, to track down the killer before someone else becomes the next victim.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312926049
• ISBN13: 9780312926045
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"