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The Body in the Basement

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Format: Mass Market Paperback, 288pp. ISBN: 0380723395 Publisher: Morrow,William & Co Pub. Date: August 1995 From the Publisher If the contractor had been on schedule (but what contractor is?) the body in the basement of Faith Fairchild and her husband Tom's new summer cottage on Maine's Sanpere Island would never have been discovered. The concrete would have been poured and Pix Miller, Faith's friend and Aleford neighbor, would not have noticed the corner of a red and white quilt in the dirt. Nor dug out enough to see a hand protruding from it. Pix is checking on the unfinished house while the Fairchilds are stuck in Aleford, staying in touch with Faith over the phone. And trouble keeps happening, some of it involving the antique and false-antique quilts that preoccupy summer people like Pix's grande dame mother Ursula and her quilting-circle friends on the island, some centered alarmingly on the sailing camp where Pix's daughter has a summer job. Then there is a second murder, and Pix, a born helper, finds herself forced to play surrogate for Faith as amateur detective while taking care of her household and serving up traditional New England delicacies (recipes included) to her family and friends. And like Faith in previous adventures, Pix's "snooping" lands her and daughter Samantha in serious peril.