Murder at Red Rook Ranch (A Poppy Dillworth Mystery)

Tallahassee, Florida: Naiad Press, Inc, 1990. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x0x8. Edges and covers rubbed. 1990 Trade Paperback. 200 pp. Poppy Dillworth is a 65-year-old retiree from the Dallas Sheriff's Department. But she retired as a clerk, not a police officer -- and the fact that, under the good-old-boy system that existed at the time (and that probably still exists), she never got the chance to put her considerable mind into doing more than just recording cases. Now, as a fledgling P.I., she finally has her chance to solve one. And she takes advantage of it with a passion. Murder at Red Rook Ranch is not a seminal book, but it is important for several reasons. First of all, it deals with the plight of aging lesbians, like Poppy, who are left alone in their old age.