The Christie Caper

The Christie Caper PDF Author: Carolyn G. Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage: He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last.

The Christie Caper

The Christie Caper PDF Author: Carolyn G. Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574466
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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A group of Christie buffs. . .In honor of Agatha Christie's one hundredth birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. But the last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder. The unexpected arrival of Neil Bledsoe, the most despised book critic in America, was sure to raise a few hackles. An advocate of hard-boiled detection and gory true crime, Bledsoe drops a bombshell on the devoted Christie assemblage: He's penning a scurrilous biography of the grand dame of suspense herself. Before the first title clue is solved, no less than two attempts are made on Bledsoe's life. Now Annie and her unflappable husband, Max Darling, find themselves trying to stop a murder in the making-only the first corpse isn't the one they're expecting. . .and it isn't the last.

The Christie Caper

The Christie Caper PDF Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Love stories
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Death on Demand

Death on Demand PDF Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574547
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 221

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WHO COULD PLOT A MURDER BETTER THAN A MYSTERY WRITER? At Annie Laurance’s Death On Demand bookstore on Broward’s Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul suddenly isn’t confined to the well-stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan’s abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of famous mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive that a bloody sword is sometimes mightier than a brilliant pen. With Annie is the unenviable position of primary police suspect, the pretty young mystery maven and her wealthy paramour, Max Darling, embark on an investigation into a classic locked-room mystery with high stakes. For failing to unmask a brutal and ingenious killer could mean prison for Ms. Laurance. While success could mean her death. “Irresistible! [Carolyn] Hart drops big names from the mystery world like murderers drop clues and Annie and Max are the most endearing new pair of sleuths since Tommy and Tuppence!” – Nancy Pickard

Christie Caper

Christie Caper PDF Author: Educational Challenges, Inc. Staff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780800919719
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Honeymoon With Murder

Honeymoon With Murder PDF Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In sickness and in health . . . Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the champagne goblets emptied, Max sweeps Annie into his arms for an amorous moment . . . when the phone rings and a woman on the other end of the line screams bloody murder! The newlyweds rush to the scene of the crime, only to discover that Ingrid Jones, Annie's bookstore assistant, has vanished, leaving the body of a neighborhood Peeping Tom on her living room rug. As the community of Broward's Rock, including a dotty New Age psychic and Annie's meddling new mother-in-law, mobilizes to find the missing woman, the cold corpse puts the honeymoon plans on the shelf . . . and Annie's love of investigation threatens to bring the big chill to Max's hungry heart.

Lark and the Diamond Caper

Lark and the Diamond Caper PDF Author: Natasha Deen
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459814029
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Rookie detectives Lark and Connor Ba are back on the case! When a pair of diamond earrings goes missing from the neighborhood general store, Lark and Connor just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Carefully mining the adults for clues, the twin sleuths work together to solve the mystery. Lark and the Diamond Caper is the second title in the Lark Ba Detective series.

Deadly Valentine

Deadly Valentine PDF Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574539
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance didn't really want to go to her neighbor's Valentine Day masked ball -- particularly not after the voluptuous brunette made a pass at Annie's husband, Max. So when her dizzy mother-in-law, Laurel, made a surprise visit to Broward's Rock Island, Annie thought it would be a perfect excuse to skip the party. She should have known better: True to form, Laurel accepted the invitation for all three of them. But the biggest surprise of all came at the party's end, when Annie found the amorous hostess in the gazebo--murdered.

A Little Class on Murder

A Little Class on Murder PDF Author: Carolyn Hart
Publisher: Crimeline
ISBN: 0307574857
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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When mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance is invited to teach "The Three Great Ladies of the Mystery" class at Chastain Community College, the sometime sleuth discovers that all is not strictly academic in Chastain's hallowed halls of learning. And when a shocking scandal in the school newspaper erupts in a suicide and two violent deaths, Professor Laurance enlists the talents of her new hubby, private eye Max Darling, and dons her thinking cap to probe intrigue and vengeance among Chastain's faculty. A Dangerous Thing Max and Annie, with dubious help from three of their own great ladies of the mystery -- Annie's pixilated mother-in-law, a batty local dowager, and a Christie crime fanatic -- learn that just about everyone at the school had means, motive, and access to the murder weapons. From the secretly boozing professor of advertising to the muscle-bound campus cad who barters passing grades for a little extracurricular activity, anyone on the faculty is a possible killer -- waiting to strike again!

A Christmas Caper

A Christmas Caper PDF Author: Shéa MacLeod
Publisher: Sunwalker Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 77

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With Christmas fast approaching and her bank accounts woefully low, Sugar Martin is spending her first holiday in Meres Reach, England instead of back home in Oregon. When the festivities are interrupted by an urgent call from her employer, she heads straight to London with Tippy in tow only to discover that her great-great-aunt Euphegenia has left her a final bequest—and a mysterious mission. Christmas is a time for magic and miracles and Sugar will need both if she’s to succeed in her quest. This charming Christmas cozy mystery is the third book in the Sugar Martin Vintage Cozy Mysteries set in post-WW2 England. Read what others are saying about USA Today Bestselling author Shéa MacLeod's Sugar Martin Vintage Cozy Mysteries series: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I loved this quick cozy read. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes cozy mysteries with a little tongue-in-cheek humor.” –P.H. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I really like this cozy! Sugar and the other characters are enjoyable and would be people I would like in real life.” – J Read the entire Sugar Martin Vintage Cozy Mysteries series: Book 1 – A Death in Devon Book 2 – A Grave Gala Book 3 – A Christmas Caper Book 4 – A Riviera Rendezvous Topics: Shéa, Shéa MacLeod, cozy mystery, cozy mysteries, animal cozy mystery, murder mystery, cosy mystery, corgi, whodunnit, humor, single woman, funny mystery, humor, British mystery, England, English mystery, English village, aristocracy, action and adventure, friendship, romantic subplot, vintage, retro, historical mystery, 1940s, mystery, detective, amateur sleuth, woman detective, private investigator, crime, caper, heist, lighthearted, inheritance, fun read, post WW2, Christmas, holiday, Yule Other readers of this book enjoyed books by: London Lovett, Kate Parker, Rick Bleiweiss, Agatha Christie, Kim M. Watt, Leighann Dobbs, Kelly Oliver, Traci Andrighetti, Irish March, M. K. Dean, Sara Rosett, Amy Saunders, C.J. Archer, Bailey Booth, ACF Bookens, Fiona Grace, Matthew Costello, Rose Temple, Victoria Walters, Maggie Robinson, Abigail Keam, Rhys Bowen, Helena Marchmont, Vivian Conroy, Martin Davies, Anna Castle, E. C. Bateman, Ada Moncrieff, Catherine Coles, Alice Duncan, Haper Lin, M. Louisa Locke, Carol Caverly, Penelope Swan, Fiona Leitch, Helena Dixon, Tam May, Emma Jameson, Ruby Riverton, P.C. James, Patricia Wentworth, M. Ruth Myers, Mary Roberts, Rinehart, Jessica Fellowes

Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie PDF Author: J.C. Bernthal
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476676208
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 457

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The undisputed "Queen of Crime," Dame Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is the bestselling novelist of all time. As the creator of immortal detectives Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, she continues to enthrall readers around the world and is drawing increasing attention from scholars, historians, and critics. But Christie wrote far beyond Poirot and Marple. A varied life including war work, archaeology, and two very different marriages provided the backdrop to a diverse body of work. This encyclopedic companion summarizes and explores Christie's entire literary output, including the detective fiction, plays, radio dramas, adaptations, and her little-studied non-crime writing. It details all published works and key themes and characters, as well as the people and places that inspired them, and identifies a trove of uncollected interviews, articles, and unpublished material, including details that have never appeared in print. For the casual reader looking for background information on their favorite mystery to the dedicated scholar tracking down elusive new angles, this companion will provide the most comprehensive and up-to-date information.