My first murder / Susan Baker.

Located in the Gloria Grant Room - special collection of SMA authors.

Mavis Davis, a likable, new-to-the-job private investigator, not only has one of the wackiest office staffs in mystery fiction but also goes about solving her first crime in her own, independent, highly interesting way. Frustrated and fed up with her job as a probation officer in Houston, Mavis has opened an office (Mavis Davis Productions) staffed it with her somewhat ditzy friend Margaret, as assistant, and Candy, a part-time high school student, and is trying to eke out a living searching files and serving legal papers for lawyers. Mavis barely has begun to sort through the evidence on hand when two insistent members of the Houston police force put pressure on her to drop the case: the mean-tempered detective in charge, who’d once had a run-in with Mavis while she was working as a probation officer; and Sgt. Benjamin Sorensen, Mavis’ love interest. As Mavis pursues the investigation, she discovers surprising and shocking clues to the past life of this woman of mystery, who was not who and what she seemed. Mavis endangers her own life when she uncovers a Texas scandal of major proportions.

English.