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MAKE NO BONES by Aaron Elkins

MAKE NO BONES

by Aaron Elkins

Pub Date: Dec. 1st, 1991
ISBN: 0-89296-378-6

Oregon's anthropologist-sleuth Gideon Oliver (A Glancing Light, p. 566, etc.) and his park-ranger wife Julie are attending a conference of anthropologists at Whitebark Lodge, where ten years before Professor Albert Evan Jasper, undisputed top dog in the field, died in a fiery bus crash, at the end of another conference and amid rather mysterious circumstances. Several of the participants in that meeting are once again at Whitebark—one of them is Associate Professor Harlow Pollard, whose bludgeoned body is found in his cottage—the climax of a series of strange events seemingly tied to the past. Gideon cleverly solves the crucial element in that murder—the liveliest part of a sluggish story heavily laden with technical lore, all too rarely lightened with the author's finely honed sense of humor. Fans may be just a tad disappointed—for others, an unrewarding slog.