Brenda H. (booksinvt) -
Huckleberry Finished is the second in the Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour Mystery. Delilah Dickinson owns Dickinson Literary Tours and has organized a tour on the Southern Belle, a Mark Twain themed casino riverboat.
What is supposed to be an overnight gambling cruise from St. Louis to Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississipi River, turns into another murderous trip for Delilah and her group. Only a few hours after their arrival on the boat Delilah is summoned by Head of Security Logan Rafferty. One of her clients, Ben Webster has caused a disturbance in the casino by accusing the roulette dealer of having a fixed wheel. Rafferty agrees to let Webster leave the ship when they reach Hannibal instead of pressing charges, but when he doesn't disembark Delilah becomes concerned.
Ben Webster's body is discovered with a broken neck in the engine room of the boat. With over 100 guests and crew on board, there are plenty of suspects. Delilah befriends the Mark Twain impersonator, Mark Lansing and the two team up to discover who murdered Ben and why.
In the course of digging up clues, Delilah discovers that Ben Webster isn't who he said he was, there is something really fishy about Logan Rafferty and there was another murder of a young woman exactly one year ago to the day on the Southern Belle. Having had her laptop stolen, Delilah turns to her daughter Melissa back home in Atlanta to handle the Internet research on her fellow passengers.
A quick paced storyline that takes place over the course of two days, plenty of action, interesting characters and a lot of references to the works of Mark Twain.
What is supposed to be an overnight gambling cruise from St. Louis to Hannibal, Missouri on the Mississipi River, turns into another murderous trip for Delilah and her group. Only a few hours after their arrival on the boat Delilah is summoned by Head of Security Logan Rafferty. One of her clients, Ben Webster has caused a disturbance in the casino by accusing the roulette dealer of having a fixed wheel. Rafferty agrees to let Webster leave the ship when they reach Hannibal instead of pressing charges, but when he doesn't disembark Delilah becomes concerned.
Ben Webster's body is discovered with a broken neck in the engine room of the boat. With over 100 guests and crew on board, there are plenty of suspects. Delilah befriends the Mark Twain impersonator, Mark Lansing and the two team up to discover who murdered Ben and why.
In the course of digging up clues, Delilah discovers that Ben Webster isn't who he said he was, there is something really fishy about Logan Rafferty and there was another murder of a young woman exactly one year ago to the day on the Southern Belle. Having had her laptop stolen, Delilah turns to her daughter Melissa back home in Atlanta to handle the Internet research on her fellow passengers.
A quick paced storyline that takes place over the course of two days, plenty of action, interesting characters and a lot of references to the works of Mark Twain.
