One dollar death

Margaret Binton #3

by Richard Barth

The mysterious murder of an elderly widow and a missing rare coin draw septuagenarian Margaret Binton into her third adventure as amateur sleuth on Manhattan's Upper West Side. This time the wily widow centers the fashionable world of numismatics. With the help of the colorful group of friends and neighbors, who have abetted her other investigations--Rose. the bag Sid, the racetrack Jerry, the precocious pool-hall hustler; and the long suffering Lieutenant Morley and Sergeant Schaeffer of the Eighty-first Precinct--she sets out to trap the man who stabbed a friend of hers at Sotheby's, where she had gone to have a coin appraised. In the process she is nearly murdered herself and , moreover, becomes a prime suspect in the crime she's determined to solve.

Genres: Mystery

220 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

Reviews

[Kathy Russell · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good.

[Kate · Rating 4 out of 5]

So silly and fun, the characters are so bitchy. More 1980s New York murder mystery novels in my future

[Arlene · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was on holiday, and it was in the ship library. I read it to pass the time.