The Bearded Lady
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For a while Elsie stared at the disappearing ambulance. It was hard to reconcile herself to the fact that her troubles were nothing compared to the human misery she'd just witnessed. Gradually the idea came to her that she had no right to take her own life. She remembered words that were spoken at a funeral service she'd attended recently: "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower .. ." An idea came into her mind, and out of the tragedy of that unknown man, she gathered the courage for a desperate resolution . Suddenly her heart beat quickly and she was anxious to carry it out. But when she turned to leave . ..
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Otis MacGregor faces a slew of troubles. On is way to the Snizort river to do some fishing, he finds the body of a woman by the side of as loch. But having left his cell phone at home, he has no way of calling the police. When a man suddenly appears out of nowhere, offers to call the police , and then disappears, Otis is strangely disconcerted. Who was that man? Was he the killer? If so, why did he stay near the body of his victim? As MacLanahan and Nicholson investigate, they discover that passions swirled around the victim and that more than one man had a motive for killing her.