The Platypus Ploy: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (An Alyson Mystery)
by Claire McNab
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Author: Claire McNabEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-12-15
ISBN: 1593500262
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Alyson Books
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Book Review: Mystery with a laugh
Summary: 4 Stars
Once again Claire McNab shows her talent for wrapping a mystery in humor. Though she has been writting for years, with her Kylie Kendall series, she's struck pure gold.
The Platypus Ploy is the fifth book in the series and opens with Kylie, transplanted Australian and detective in training, preparing to work undercover in a retirement home for show business stars. Someone is embezzling money and Kylie's agency has been hired to find out who it is. This brings her in contact with outrageous individuals, including a Shakespearean ham, a faded matinee idol, and a former Hollywood beauty queen who has a voracious appetite for women. Unfortunately, before the investigation can proceed very far, someone kidnaps Ariana Creeling, Kylie's partner in the agency and the woman she adores. Kylie is sure that someone at the home knows what has happened and that to rescue Ariana, she's going to have to solve the mystery, but getting anyone to talk is extremely difficult. Things take an even darker turn when it becomes clear that Ariana's disappearance is connected to someone who has been stalking Kylie and making death threats. Kylie knows she's in a race against time and the reward is Ariana's life.
The series is peopled with a great supporting cast of characters, including Melodie, the receptionist-soon-to-be-major-star who uses her network of receptionists to know everything before the Office of Homeland Security; Fran, the self-appointed office manager who insists on having disaster drills for The Big One, whether it's a nuclear attack or general terrorist mayhem, and Julia Roberts, the cat who rules the office and torments Lonnie the computer geek. This book also includes, besides the entertainment has-beens, a psychic who keeps things stirred up.
If you haven't read any of the previous books, you really should start at the beginning with The Wombat Strategy, then go to The Kookaburra Gambit, The Quokka Question and The Dingo Dilemma. The development of the characters is progressive in the books and, unlike some series, you don't get the same story over and over with just a different title.
If you like a good mystery that will also have you laughing, you'll love these books.
Summary of The Platypus Ploy: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (An Alyson Mystery)
Stone the crows-Aussie Kylie Kendall returns!
Kylie's relationship with paramour Ariana Creeling has reached a new level-until she disappears. There's no sign of violence, no ransom demand-she simply vanishes. Kylie is distraught, not knowing whether she's alive or dead. Convinced there's a link to the prestigious Clarice Turner Evenstar Home, where aged show business stars fade not-so-gently away, Kylie disguises herself as a volunteer and finds herself on the trail of the culprit-but will she be too late to save the woman she loves?
Claire McNab is a transplanted Aussie who has written many mysteries for both children and adults.
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