Turtle Baby by Abigail Padgett

By Abigail Padgett

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When poison from a tropical plant places eight-month-old Acito, whose identify skill "little turtle," right into a San Diego clinic, baby abuse investigator Bo Bradley is drawn into her 3rd suspenseful case (following Strawgirl). in response to Andy LaMarche, a health center pediatrician and Bradley's decided suitor, Acito's caretakers couldn't have poisoned the infant by accident. This casts suspicion on Acito's mom, Chac, a bar singer who visited her son prior to he fell in poor health. Bo meets Chac in Tijuana and is derived to think she should not have poisoned her son, yet this turns into tricky to turn out after the girl collapses and dies on level. because the San Diego police aren't performing on Acito's case and the Mexican police officers don't care in regards to the dying of one other ex-prostitute, Bo focuses her full of life interest on Chac's friends and her American husband, who has escaped from from a Louisiana felony. Padgett expertly crafts this secret, placing her sleuth within the needful life-threatening occasions. What units her tale aside, even if, is her description of the workings of public baby defense and her convincing portrayal, from the interior, of Bo's efforts to paintings and dwell with manic depression.
(Copyright 1995 Reed enterprise info, Inc. )

(Book 3 of the Bo Bradley Mysteries sequence)

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By Abigail Padgett

From Publisher's Weekly:

When poison from a tropical plant places eight-month-old Acito, whose identify skill "little turtle," right into a San Diego clinic, baby abuse investigator Bo Bradley is drawn into her 3rd suspenseful case (following Strawgirl). in response to Andy LaMarche, a health center pediatrician and Bradley's decided suitor, Acito's caretakers couldn't have poisoned the infant by accident. This casts suspicion on Acito's mom, Chac, a bar singer who visited her son prior to he fell in poor health. Bo meets Chac in Tijuana and is derived to think she should not have poisoned her son, yet this turns into tricky to turn out after the girl collapses and dies on level. because the San Diego police aren't performing on Acito's case and the Mexican police officers don't care in regards to the dying of one other ex-prostitute, Bo focuses her full of life interest on Chac's friends and her American husband, who has escaped from from a Louisiana felony. Padgett expertly crafts this secret, placing her sleuth within the needful life-threatening occasions. What units her tale aside, even if, is her description of the workings of public baby defense and her convincing portrayal, from the interior, of Bo's efforts to paintings and dwell with manic depression.
(Copyright 1995 Reed enterprise info, Inc. )

(Book 3 of the Bo Bradley Mysteries sequence)

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PLACE ON WOULD TOURS. ON NATURALLY BE YOUR" A" SHOWN OFF" CONGRATULATIONS" RUN Congratulations! You have found the Historical Society workers. You walk over to the big hole in the sand they have been digging and ask lots of questions. Suddenly, you notice a bony hand sticking out of the sand. No one seems to understand why you are jumping up and down and yelling. Then they see the hand too. You grab a shovel and help the workers. You have discovered an ancient burial ground! 42 • MYSTERY AND ADVENTURE The report you write on your experiences gets an A and you get a membership from the Historical Society for helping it to discover the burial ground The "S-Thief" Stories about the "S-Thief have been in all the newspapers.

All three pass by his farm regularly and know his habits. Type in the program to find out their location. " "GO BACK TO THE BOOK" RUN Before you set off to question the suspects, Frank Bridges gives you a description of his missing horse. Jim Fowler is a garden and pet supply salesman. A neatly trimmed lawn surrounds Jim's house. The only horse you see here is a ceramic statue of a jockey on a white horse. It rests beside the front door. At the rear of the house you can see a large garage that has three locks.

The newspaper article said that the Society has found an old map in its library. The map is of a beach in your town that used to be an Indian reservation. M~ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 /WWW" /WWWW" 0 0/WWWWWW" X /WWW" o 0 t| 0 /WWWWWWW" 0 /W" 90 PRINT "0 - TEEPEE" 100 PRINT "X = HISTORICAL SPOT' A DAY AT THE BEACH 110 120 PRINT PRINT • 39 ll IN QUESTION11 "W = WATER11 RUN There are lots of reservations in your town. Many roads, beaches and parks there have Indian names. The Historical Society is especially concerned that some of the beaches where the Indians once lived are being ruined by companies who dump their garbage there.

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