| International Standard Book Number |
9780063469341 ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780063469327 trade paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063469324 trade paperback
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| Personal Name |
Lane, Lyla, author.
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| Title Statement |
The best little motel in Texas : a novel / Lyla Lane.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Harper Perennial, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
278 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"After a childhood spent combing the dive bars of Sarsaparilla Falls to collect her fun-loving momma, Cordelia West now enjoys a simple, respectable life in Dallas. Then one phone call from the hometown she's spent years trying to forget throws it into chaos. Cordelia's great-aunt Penelope has passed away, naming Cordelia the sole heir to the Chickadee Motel. She has no memory of a great-aunt and no interest in hospitality, but the will stipulates that the motel can't be sold until its residents leave or pass away -- so she reluctantly heads back down to Sarsaparilla Falls to figure out who's living in the Chickadee, and how to get them out. But upon her arrival, Cordelia discovers the Chickadee isn't a motel -- it's a brothel, housing three women in their sixties known as the Chicks. For decades, Daisy, Arline, and Belinda Sue have entertained the men of Sarsaparilla Falls (with their wives' blessings) -- including the upright Pastor Reed-Smythe, who thunders against the town's favorite sins when he's not indulging. Cordelia doesn't want to be a hotel manager or a madam, but she can't just sell the only home the Chicks have known -- especially not after the pastor is found poisoned in Daisy's bed. With the Chicks -- and the town -- on the verge of a breakdown, Cordelia steps up to mop up the mess. For a small town, there are plenty of suspects: could it be the obsessed nurse with access to arsenic? Developers eager to gobble up the land? The righteously angry town librarian? Things are heating up in Sarsaparilla Falls, and with the Pastor's obnoxiously attractive son Archer -- Cordelia's childhood nemesis -- investigating the Chicks and getting close, straightlaced Cordelia may just have to get a little dirty to make a killer come clean"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Homecoming Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Investigation Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Inheritance and succession Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prostitutes Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Small cities Texas Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Poisoning Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Brothels Texas Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motels Texas Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Texas Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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