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The inimitable Agatha Christie intrigues, surprises, and delights with The Mysterious Mr. Quin—a riveting collection of short stories centered around the enigmatic Harley Quin, whose unpredictable comings and goings are usually a good indication that something is about to happen...and rarely for the best.
It had been a typical New Year's Eve party. But as midnight approaches, Mr. Satterthwaite—a keen observer
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Dell mystery volume 1094
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Mrs. Pittman's well-to-do Pittsburgh family didn't approve of her marriage, so the young bride moved away and lost touch with her relatives. Years later, she has returned to her native city as a widow and now runs a boarding house, one of the only jobs available to respectable women in the early twentieth century. Rooms at Mrs. Pittman's place are cheap because of the annual floods from the Allegheny River, which inundate the building's basement and...
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Interior designer, Erin Gilbert can't help but fall in love at first sight with her newest design job – a delightful little bungalow set on a quiet street. Until she steps inside. What looks neat and tidy as a postcard from the outside, looks like Hurricane Clutter on the inside! It seems the bungalow's eccentric owner, widow Helen Walker, hasn't thrown a thing out since 1942. Newspapers are piled high, almost reaching the ceiling, bric-a-brac covers...
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Smart, talented interior designer Erin Gilbert is becoming great friends with her free-spending client, Laura Smith, whose stunning mansion is brimming with rare, expensive antiques…until she realizes the fabulous treasures she so carefully acquired for Laura have been completely replaced with fakes! When Laura's explanations sound as phony as the furniture, Erin is compelled to dig deeper into Laura's glamorous life-the real antiques have got to...
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Once competitors, Erin Gilbert and (the irritatingly good-looking!) Steve Sullivan have now become business partners. Their first project together? A feng shui makeover of a celebrity chef and his famous artist (famous more for her temper than her art!) wife's home. But it seems that this home-and the project-generates more than a few bad vibes. When the construction foreman on the job, Erin's half-brother, dies in a suspicious manner, Erin decides...
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Gladdy Gold Mystery #4 "The Golden Girls play Nancy Drew in their own funny and creative ways ... colorful and Meshugeneh." -- Mystery Scene Gladdy Gold has traded New York snow for Florida sunshine and she's loving every second! With a handsome gentleman, poolside gossip and a thriving private investigator business (perfect for a dedicated snoop!), life is grand ... until a trip back to the Big Apple leads to Big Trouble. And murder! Luckily for...
9) Show Time
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The tide has turned for Dodie O'Dell since a hurricane upended her life on the Jersey Shore. Now she's further up the coast in sleepy Etonville, managing a restaurant that dishes dinners themed around the community theater's latest productions. But Dodie just never imagined she'd land the starring role in a case of bloody homicide . . .
Intrigued by rumors of vanishing box office money, Dodie has agreed to help oversee the casting of Romeo and Juliet...
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Restaurant manager Dodie O'Dell's themed food ideas have been called cute, clever, and delicious, but never revolutionary-until now. Dodie's Windjammer Restaurant is stocking the Etonville Little Theatre's concession stand with colonial-era desserts and drinks: Swamp Yankee applesauce cake, pumpkin bread, hot cider punch, and mulled wine to complement the latest production. A local playwright has adapted Thornton Wilder's Our Town into Eton Town,...
11) Time Out
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KNISH OF DEATH
The amateur actors at the Etonville Little Theatre may be known for chewing the scenery, but restaurant manager Dodie O'Dell has something more appetizing for them to sink their teeth into. She's been taking bows in her small New Jersey town for her theme menus, designed to complement the local productions. This fall, the community theatre is staging Arsenic and Old Lace, set in 1940s Brooklyn, so Dodie is serving up hot dogs, Italian...
12) Just in Time
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FACE THE MUSIC
Business is humming at Dodie O'Dell's Windjammer Restaurant, where she offers theme menus connected to the Etonville Little Theatre's amateur productions. This June, the theatre is collaborating with the neighboring Creston Players to stage Bye Bye Birdie under the stars-their first musical! There's a contest in the play to pick a fan to receive rock idol Conrad Birdie's last kiss before he ships off for the Army, so Dodie plans a...
13) No More Time
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DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
Restaurant manager Dodie O'Dell has found her niche in the cozy New Jersey town of Etonville, creating menus that make a delicious double-act with the community theater's productions. Now she's ready for a vacation at the Jersey Shore town she called home before a hurricane hit. Sun, salty air, and seagulls make for a nostalgic escape from regular life-until a contingent from Etonville arrives to compete in a Jersey Shore theater...
14) Benevolent Evil
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Strange happenings from the past collide with ominous present-day events when intrepid Castle Valley reporter, Kendall O'Dell, investigates the mysterious disappearance of Holly Mason, a young woman with a troubled criminal history, drug addiction and an abusive husband. Last seen at a truck stop near Kingman, Arizona, an eyewitness points the finger at registered sex offender, Nelson Trotter, who recently inherited the Double G Ranch along with his...
15) Killing Time
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BAD BLOOD:
With Halloween just around the corner, Dodie O'Dell is making preparations to transform the Windjammer Restaurant on the Jersey Shore into a haunted house, while the Etonville Little Theatre is staging Dracula. But casting the titular Transylvanian is proving challenging. The amateur actors in the company are not shy about chewing the scenery, but who among them can convincingly sink their fangs into a victim's neck? When a mysterious...
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