A bereaved young professional woman living in Colorado inherits the substantial estate of her beloved aunt, including the large Virginia farm with a picturesque mansion where she had spent happy summers in her youth. She returns to Virginia to settle the estate and to decide whether to stay there permanently and immediately encounters a number of mysterious threatening and tragic incidents on the farm, plus a lawsuit aimed at breaking the aunt’s will. Then complicating her dealing with all the strife of a new life, she feels herself fighting an attraction to the estate’s coexecutor, her aunt’s handsome lawyer. Action culminates when she is confronted by a murderer—the person behind all the previous threats.
IN THE AUTHOR'S SIGN IN FOR MURDER TWO REAL ESTATE AGENTS HEAVILY INVOLVED THEMSELVES IN THE INVESTIGATION OF A MURDER THAT OCCURRED IN ONE OF THEIR LISTED HOUSES - THEIR IMPERSONATIONS, DISGUISES, AND DARING ACTIVITIES ADDING COLOR AND HUMOR TO THE SUSPENSE. IN THE END, ONE OF THEM CAPTURED THE MURDERER IN RATHER UNIQUE FASHION. NOW, A YEAR LATER, IN SCENT OF SUSPICION, THEY FIND THEMSELVES AGAIN INVOLVED IN A CRIME INVESTIGATION - THIS TIME VERY CLOSE TO THEIR LIVES. TWO PEOPLE HAVE GONE MISSING IN THE SAME AFTERNOON AND ONLY A FEW MILES APART. ONE IS THEIR SECRETARY-AGENT; THE OTHER, A FRIEND. DURING THIS MORE SOBER INVESTIGATIVE EFFORT, ROMANCE FLARES FOR ONE OF THE AGENTS - ADDING A DIMENSION OF PERSONAL CONFLICT TO THE STORY.
A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird’s Waste Heritage is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, Waste Heritage has been praised as Canada’s Grapes of Wrath and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird’s original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.
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