Gladly the Cross-Eyed Bear

Description:

Lainie Commins, a freelance designer of children's toys, hires attorney Matthew Hope for a lawsuit against her old employers, Brett and Etta Toland. At stake are the lucrative rights to Gladly, a teddy bear with crossed eyes and corrective lenses. It's a straightforward case--until Brett Toland is shot in the throat aboard his luxury yacht and Lainie becomes the chief suspect.

subjects: Fiction,  Matthew Hope (Fictitious character),  Lawyers,  Mystery,  Large type books,  Florida, fiction,  Hope, matthew (fictitious character), fiction,  Lawyers, fiction,  Fiction, mystery & detective, general,  Calusa (fla. : imaginary place), fiction,  American fiction

Places: Florida

Times: 20th century