TY - BOOK AU - Maitland,Barry ED - Copyright Paperback Collection (Library of Congress) TI - The Marx sisters: a Kathy and Brock mystery SN - 0140291768 (pbk.) : AV - CPB Box no. 2001 vol. 2 PY - 2000///, c1994 CY - New York PB - Penguin KW - Marx, Karl, KW - Englischliteratur KW - Thriller KW - Crime KW - Fiction KW - Topic KW - detective story KW - Police KW - England KW - London KW - Policewomen KW - Older women KW - Sisters KW - London (England) KW - Mystery fiction KW - gsafd N1 - "A Penquin mystery"--Cover N2 - Detective Sergeant Kathy Kolla, handling her very first murder investigation, isn't even sure Meredith Winterbottom was murdered. There are clues that the old woman was smothered with a plastic bag, but a telltale plastic bag isn't one of them, and the medical evidence is infuriatingly inconclusive. Meredith's scarcely-younger sisters, Peg Blythe (who prides herself on being the last Stalinist in England) and Eleanor Harper (who calls herself a scientific socialist), help mainly by providing a possible motive: the three of them, co-tenants in London's homely Jerusalem Lane, are the last holdouts against the cash blandishments of developer Derek Slade ER -