Nude Descending a Staircase by Joyce Richardson

Always ready for adventure, Amy and Susan, friends and neighbors in an idyllic university town, find more mayhem than they bargained for.

While scouring the sky for flying saucers, Amy and Susan find a naked man, unresponsive, on the grounds of the museum/asylum. So begins the trouble. As the women delve into the bohemian art scene at Foothills, they end up haplessly trying to solve the mystery of the bodies that seem to appear wherever they are. Soon, not only their friendship, but also their reputations and lives are at stake. Still, their zany spirit prevails despite pratfalls and miscalculations.

This quirky mystery is as humorous as it is intriguing. The tortured corridors of the museum are nothing compared to the strange art and artists who inhabit this world.

Nude Descending a Staircase was a really good book and I do recommend it, but I’m not quite sure it lives up to some of the wording in its blurb.  Admittedly, getting up before dawn to look for UFOs could be considered zany, but once they find the naked man in the car, it gets less so.  Oh, the bohemian artists and weird exhibits are still there and you may get a chuckle from some of that, but I got caught up in the mystery and the danger.  Susan and Amy become the prime suspects in the murders and Susan especially sets out to clear their names, while worrying about Amy who disappears for several days.  When she turns up, Amy helps, too, but more bodies surface, pointing still to the two amateur sleuths, and the closer they get to the answer, the more they realize they’re becoming the next targets.  I couldn’t put it down, but I’m knocking off half a rose because the blurb led me to expected more chuckling than there was.

Length:  218 Pages

Price:  $5.95

Buy Link:  http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage-ask.tpl&product_id=56&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1

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