Skull Duggery
by Aaron Elkins

No one solves crimes like Skeleton Detective Gideon Oliver.

Gideon and his wife are on vacation in Mexico when a local police chief requests his assistance on a case. A mummified corpse was discovered in the desert and the coroner believed the victim was shot. But Gideon's examination reveals the victim was stabbed with a Phillips-head screwdriver. Then Gideon is asked to examine the skeleton of a murder victim found a year earlier—only to discover another error. The coroner misidentified the remains as belonging to a twelve to fifteen-year-old girl, when in fact the remains were that of a young woman of twenty.

Gideon knows these two "mistakenly" identified bodies aren't a coincidence. But finding the connection between them will prove more dangerous than he could possibly imagine— and place him into the crosshairs of the killer he's hunting.

Other Books by Aaron Elkins

Dying on the Vine
A Skeleton Detective Mystery #17

The Worst Thing

Skull Duggery
A Skeleton Detective Mystery #16

Uneasy Relations
A Skeleton Detective Mystery #15

Little Tiny Teeth
A Skeleton Detective Mystery

Unnatural Selection
Gideon Oliver Mystery #13

Old Bones
A Skeleton Detective Mystery #4

Murder In The Queen's Armes
A Gideon Oliver Novel #3

The Dark Place
A Gideon Oliver Mystery

Where There's A Will
A Gideon Oliver Mystery #12"

Fellowship Of Fear
A Gideon Oliver Mystery

Good Blood

Good Blood

Turncoat

Aaron Elkins' Bio

Edgar® Award-winner Aaron Elkins is the creator of forensic anthropologist Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, and the author of many other highly praised mysteries and thrillers.