The Doctor and the Dead Man's Chest

A doctor turns amateur sleuth when his nurse is kidnapped in this mystery in Agatha Award award-winning series.

Lydia Ashley, owner of a large farm in Southern New Jersey, is being systematically harassed by someone who wants her land. Dr. Fenimore can’t leave his Philadelphia practice, so he sends his nurse Mrs. Doyle and his young assistant Horatio to try to stop the attacks, but the threats continue. When Mrs. Doyle is kidnapped, Dr. Fenimore joins the hunt and learns that hidden treasure is at the root of all the evil deeds.

“No one turns sweet into sinister with more wit than Hathaway.” —New York Times–bestselling author Lisa Scottoline