Identity of Death: An Arkansas River Valley Mystery - Paperback

by Beryl Wealand (Author)

Dr. Garnet Daniels is surprised when the body of an old friend, Ella Justice, appears in the Gross Anatomy lab at her medical school under somebody else's name. She assumes there must have been a mix-up at the mortuary-but things only get weirder when Garnet's super-religious Uncle ADD shows up with six boxes of human ash. Apparently, at the behest of the ghost of Jesse James, ADD and his friends used a moonstone to find what was supposed to be buried treasure. Instead, they found cremated remains. It only seemed logical for ADD to bring them to his knowledgeable niece the professor. Despite her doubts, Garnet looks into the mysterious boxes her uncle uncovered. She's shocked to find the name "Ella Justice" on one of them, but how can Ella be both in a box and in Garnet's lab? ? An autopsy reveals Ella was poisoned with arsenic and hydrocodone, which begins an investigation that leads to a murder plot and identity theft at a local retirement home. Who could be next.