Elsbeth King appears in The Bone that Blew. She was arrested after her daughter, Alexa King, shot her nanny, Calvin Warren, after he was going to her school that she was cheating on her history assignment. Alexa tried to convince Calvin not to tell but he refused, saying that she need to learn her lesson - something her mother and father refused to do. So, Alexa shot him.
After Elsbeth got home, she told her daughter to help her drag Calvin's body out the back door. Then she spilled petrol on his corpse and set it ablaze. Later, Calvin's bones became light enough to blow away in a wind storm.
Initially she said that she was the murderer to keep her daughter out of jail, but the bullet wounds on Calvin later proved that Alexa was the killer. Elsbeth was later arrested as an accessory to the Calvin's murder. Her husband, Richard King, was shocked that his wife and daughter would kill Calvin.