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Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
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Description
In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount,...
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Edition
1st ed. in the U.S.A.
Description
Ah, it's an academic conference, with all the egos, the scandals, the terrifyingly petty squabbles on display. Well….perhaps not so petty. Professor Andrew Basnett has returned to his old university for a meeting of the Botanical Association, an event that should be entirely benign, except that he can't help being just a little curious about Carl Judd, an artist who was murdered here just two years ago. And, of course, about Stephen Sharland, who's...
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st U.S.ed.
Description
Plans for peaceful seaside holidays rarely work out well in the world of classic British mysteries. Retired professor Andrew Basnett, for example, envisioning sandcastles and the blessings of a pale English sun on his pale English skin, is startled to meet his nephew, Peter, on the beach. He's more startled (and not entirely thrilled) when Peter gets him invited to dinner with a celebrity novelist. And he's extremely startled when the novelist's sister-in-law...
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1994
Edition
1st ed.
Description
The irresistible Andrew Basnett series may have been written in the 1980s and '90s, but its soul lies with the classic crime fiction of the 1930s. Here, for example, is A Hobby of Murder, with its setting at-wait for it-a classic country-house party, that staple of the Golden Age. Rounding out the guest list are, among others, a mystery writer, a lawyer with a reason to dislike him, a doctor, a retired teacher with a passion for photography, and the...
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1987
Description
When an old colleague complains of disappearing neighbors, a retired professor of botany starts digging for clues in this delightful cozy mystery.
Andrew Basnett may be retired from academia, but that doesn't seem to have stopped his former colleagues from dumping problems in his lap. This time around it's peppery Constance Camm, whose neighbors keep disappearing. Miss Camm and her sister, Mollie, would probably shrug it off if not for a frightening...
Author
Series
Andrew Basnett mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984
Description
A weekend holiday at a wealthy relative's country manor is a recipe that calls for mayhem in this charming cozy English mystery.
Andrew Basnett's cousin Felicity is old, rich, and the owner of a swanky Berkshire estate. If Basnett were a savvy mystery reader rather than a retired professor of botany, he would know that an invitation to spend Easter weekend at such an estate is all but guaranteed to involve at least one murder. But since Felicity...
Author
Series
Publisher
Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
Pub. Date
1984
Description
A retired botanist comes to stay in a charming English village, where murder and blackmail disturb the bucolic peace in this mystery series debut.
No longer on the sprightly side of seventy, Professor Andrew Basnett is looking forward to retirement and finally digging into the biography he plans to write about an obscure seventeenth century botanist. While his flat in town is renovated, he settles into a little village in Oxfordshire where he's borrowed...
Author
Series
Daisy Arthur mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Description
"Opening her door after midnight launches widow and retired special education teacher Daisy Arthur ino her second murder mystery in less than a year. Brian Hughes, boyfriend to former student Ginny Caerphilly , is standing in her front yard, covered in blood , and talking about "Mississippi" being asleep in the bathroom of the supermarket where he and Ginny work. Time to call in Ginny's dad, Gabe Caerphilly, also Daisy's knight in shining armor and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime mass-market edition.
Description
"A retired schoolteacher--and yes, daughter of an F. Scott Fitzgerald fan--Daisy Buchanan has finally found her calling in the quaint village of Millbury, Pennsylvania. While her husband endlessly renovates their old house, Daisy happily presides over Sometimes a Great Notion, a quirky shop that sells sewing bits and bobs, antiques, and jewelry. Daisy has her eye on an antique dollhouse and a classic Singer Featherweight at the local auction--until...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Walker and Co
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
A land developer is killed in Sherebury, England, and police suspect environmentalists, but they are too busy to handle the case because of a forthcoming royal visit. So the case is taken by Dorothy Martin, an American widow working in a bookstore who is the sweetheart of the chief of police.
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 3
Description
Community leaders from various churches in Chicago descend on a small Scottish island for an exercise in brotherhood. The exercise ends with the murder of a member of the group, and it is up to Dorothy Martin, a 60-year-old widow to find the killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Description
When her friend Georgia Hallerbee asks Phyllis to have her house featured in the annual Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes, Phyllis is equally flattered and flustered. She already has a bridal shower on Christmas Eve and a wedding on New Year's Eve to prepare for, and she's been baking gingerbread cookies as if they're going out of style. But like her tasty treats, she rises to the occasion. Before the tour can even get under way, Phyllis hears a...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
"Now married to her constable, Alan Nesbitt, Dorothy settles in for a life of peace, quiet, and domestic bliss. Which lasts for perhaps a month."--BOOK JACKET. "Then Ada Finch calls: Bob, her gardener son who has a wee problem with the bottle, is being accused of the attempted theft of a Sevres ten set from the informal toy museum at Brocklesby Hall, and she doesn't know what to do. So, would Dorothy ... ?"--BOOK JACKET. "Of course she will, even...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Walker and Company
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
After she attends a Christmas service, Dorothy Martin, 60, an American widow living in England whose outrageous hats are the talk of the village, stumbles over the body of the local canon. She turns sleuth to help out the chief constable, also a widower. A debut in fiction for an Indiana writer.
Author
Series
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
At this year's school carnival fund-raiser, the obnoxious president of the Parent Teacher Organization is found stabbed through the heart with Phyllis Newsom's own knife, with traces of incriminating frosting. Clearing her name will be no piece of cake...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Library ed.
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