Lily Bard

Lily Bard is the heroine of "Shakespeare's Landlord," a fictional novel about murder in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas. The "Landlord" is Pardon Albee who is the owner/landlord of the Shakespeare Garden Apartments. He is found dead one dark evening. Lily Bard, a young woman in her early thirties, lives in a house directly behind the apartments. She purchased the house from Albee some four years before. Lily sometimes has a hard time sleeping and is on a late, late night walk the evening of the murder. She witnesses a stealth body using her own trash can cart to haul a large plastic container to the nearby Shakespeare Arboretum. After she sees the dark figure return the cart, Lily rushes down to the park and finds Pardon Albee's dead body inside the plastic bags. Not wanting to become involved, she anonymously telephones Police Chief Claude...