02530cam a2200445 i 4500 385396678 TxAuBib 20190626120000.0 190412s2019||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2019017220 9781432865290 1432865293 (OCoLC)1097366347 TxAuBib rda Albert, Susan Wittig. A plain vanilla murder [LARGE PRINT] / Susan Wittig Albert. Large Print edition. Waterville, Maine : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2019. ©2019. 437 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Thorndike Press large print mystery China Bayles Mystery, A Thorndike Press large print mystery series China and Ruby Wilcox are presenting their annual "Not Just Plain Vanilla Workshop," always a huge hit with customers at Thyme & Seasons Herb Shop. But someone involved with the workshop is driven by a deadly motive, and China soon finds herself teaming up with the very pregnant Pecan Springs police chief Sheila Dawson to solve a vanilla-flavored murder. Sheila, happy to get out from behind the chief's desk, is investigating the death of a botany professor, a prominent researcher specializing in vanilla orchids. China is trying to help a longtime friend: the dead professor's ex-wife and a prime suspect in his murder. However, there's no shortage of other suspects: a betrayed lover, a disgruntled graduate student, jealous colleagues, and a gang of orchid smugglers. But the lethal roots of this mystery reach back into the dark tropical jungles of Mexico, where the vanilla vine was first cultivated. At stake: a lucrative plant patent, an orchid that is extinct in the wild, and the life of an innocent little girl. The series name is "A China Bayles Mystery". 20190626. Bayles, China (Fictitious character) Fiction. Herbalists Fiction. Women detectives Texas Fiction. Large type books. College stories. Detective and mystery fiction. Novels. Thorndike Press large print mystery. A China Bayles Mystery. Thorndike Press large print mystery series. TXKAR