Avon Books Suburban mom Jane Jeffry and her equally green-thumbless best friend Shelley Nowack could kill plastic plants But their scheme to improve themselves vegetatively dies on the vine when the celebrated botanist slated to teach a class at the local Community Center is mysteriously beaten into a coma - and her replacement turns out to be Dr. Stewart Eastman. an arrogant. self-promoting boor Did Dr. Eastman or a fellow classmate assault their. original instructor And who later plants a corpse in Eastmans compost heap Theres certainly an abundant crop of suspects. And its up to Jane to weed out a killer.