The Shy Tulip Murders

The Shy Tulip Murders (A Botanical Mystery #3)

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Agribusiness, environmentalists and murder collide in this third novel in Rebecca Rothenberg's critically acclaimed series featuring microbiologist Claire Sharples. Claire plans to use a newly discovered bed of endangered Slate Mountain Mariposa tulips (commonly called shy tulips) in her fight with the U.S. Forest Service to preserve the area--unless desperate loggers get...more
Hardcover, 327 pages
Published May 1st 1996 by Mysterious Press
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Claire Sharples has moved to a mountain cabin in the sequoias, where her work and her home place smack in the middle of the debate between the loggers and the environmentalists.

Not structured like a typical mystery, this reads more like an issue novel than a mystery.
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The Shy Tulip Murders (Mass Market Paperback)
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Rebecca Rothenberg (1948-1998) was a writer, musician, epidemiologist, amateur botanist, president of the San Gabriel chapter of the California Native Plants Society, and the author of the Claire Sharples Botanical Mystery series. The first, The Bulrush Murders, was nominated for the Anthony and Agatha Awards, and was named as one of the Top Ten Mysteries of 1992 by the Los Angeles Times. After he...more
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