Service Dress Blues
The Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mysteries: Book #5
- By: Michael Bowen & Poisoned Pen Press
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Description
This contemporary puzzle mystery features Rep and Melissa Pennyworth, a bantering, plucky couple. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has followed Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for a university assistant professorship.
Then, on the night before the Army-Navy game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in a cheap motel near the Naval Academy in Annapolis. The victim’s closest relatives are Ole and Lena Lindstrom, a pair of aging but scrappy Wisconsin political activists who had asked Rep for copyright advice. Ole and Lena have a well-earned reputation for trading punches with each other, and when Ole is murdered, Lena becomes an instant suspect. But Rep and Melissa suspect there is more involved, including a connection between the midshipman’s mugging and Ole’s murder.
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The Rep and Melissa Pennyworth Mysteries Series

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By: Michael Bowen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
Abridged: No
Attorney Rep Pennyworth faces the client from hell: Charlotte Buchanan, author of And Done to Others' Harm, a mystery of no particular merit. Charlotte contends that her 1997 novel is the basis for the 1999 film Contemplation of Death-and she wants to sue. Rep would blow her off, but Charlotte is the daughter of the CEO of the firm's major... Read more »
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Unforced Error
By: Michael Bowen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
Abridged: No
Rep and Melissa Pennyworth attend a reenactment of a Civil War battle in Kansas City, Missouri, while seeking a cutting-edge copyright case for attorney Rep—and find a corpse instead. Melissa’s best friend from girlhood, Linda Damon, worked for the victim before his death and, on one regrettable occasion, got a bit too intimately involved in her... Read more »
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Shoot the Lawyer Twice
By: Michael Bowen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 6 hours 10 minutes
Abridged: No
When a fraternity boy finds himself on trial in Milwaukee for piracy on the high seas, Lawyer Rep Pennyworth suspects he’s being used as an unwitting accomplice in a cheap publicity stunt. Meanwhile, his wife, Melissa, the professor-half of the couple, gets caught in the middle of a conflict between two colleagues that soon escalates into... Read more »
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Service Dress Blues
By: Michael Bowen & Poisoned Pen Press
Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
Length: 7 hours 2 minutes
Abridged: No
This contemporary puzzle mystery features Rep and Melissa Pennyworth, a bantering, plucky couple. Rep, a trademark and copyright lawyer, has followed Melissa to Milwaukee in her quest for a university assistant professorship.
Then, on the night before the Army-Navy game, a midshipman is found stark naked and barely alive in a cheap motel near the... Read more »
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