Birthday Snakes

By Ann Morven

Hired to sing for a sultan, professional entertainer and amateur sleuth Sheil B. Wright is accused of stealing his priceless birthday jewels. To clear her name she must find the real thief, but an angry cobra has its own deadly agenda.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Darling Newspaper Press
• Release date: May 19, 2009
• ISBN: 9781452309866

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BIRTHDAY

SNAKES

by Ann Morven

Smashwords Edition 2009.

Published by Darling Newspaper Press.

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Front cover image: Hyderabad Friends of Snakes Club

ISKANDER the Magnificent, Sultan Supreme, interrupted my singing with a flick of his fat, jewelled wrist. Australians! he burbled. The sport. The gambling. I am same, isn’t it. But your jockey, your Snowy, is one damn fool.

I had been warbling down a mental mountainside with The Man From Snowy River, the runaway colt recaptured in verse, my banjo plunking a sort of hoofbeat rhythm before this potentate’s golden throne. My mouth, still open, blurted back at him, Fool, your royal high magnificence?

Yia. When I race, it is only for prizemoney.

"Your highness