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A Body at Bunco : Myrtle Clover #8

ElizabethSCraig

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Reads 55,029
Votes 4,898
Parts 21
Time 5h 57m

ElizabethSCraig

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Playing Bunco may be fun...but murder proves a game-changer.

Octogenarian sleuth Myrtle Clover has never heard of the dice game Bunco. Regardless, she steps in as her daughter-in-law's sub and reluctantly puts her game face on.

Bunco turns out to be child's play. But when a body is discovered, Myrtle realizes another game is afoot. Before long, she's playing cat and mouse with the killer.

Can she track down the murderer before the game is up? Or, with the killer playing hard to get, will it end up being "no dice?"All Rights Reserved

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