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Cannell Dorothy
The Thin Woman
DescriptionReluctant to show up at her family reunion carrying so many extra pounds, unmarried, overweight Ellie Simons hires Bentley T. Haskell to pose as her fiance, thus beginning a weekend of romance, jealousy, and murder. Reprint. PW. K.
Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 12)
DescriptionWhen her in-laws invite her to Yorkshire moors, Ellie can’t resist. The name “Cragstone House” just sounds so much like the delightfully musty manors she reads about in books! And so she and her husband set off for Yorkshire, accompanied by their irrepressible housekeeper and co-conspirator in crime solving, Mrs. Roxie Malloy. But things at Cragstone turn out far less idyllic than Ellie expected. First the kindly cook, Mrs. Cake, suffers a mysterious fall down the stairs. Then a visiting vicar meets his death after drinking a cup of tea. Ellie has always thought it would be wonderful to be the heroine of a Gothic romance…but now she’s beginning to wonder: Will she and Roxie be able to solve the mystery and get out of Brontë country alive? Or has Ellie reached the tragic dead end of her own fairy tale?
Mum's the Word
DescriptionIn her latest mystery treat the award-winning author of The Thin Woman and The Widows Club dishes up a deliciously wicked souffle of suspense, motherhood--and of course--murder....Several pounds heavier--and gaining--blissful mother-to-be Ellie Haskell knows her days as a thin woman are numbered. Time to let out her clothes, put up her feet, and prepare to enjoy the next nine months as a pampered wife. But the first pangs of morning sickness have barely passed when Ellie's handsome husband, Ben, is invited to compete for membership in the world's most exclusive secret society of chefs, and suddenly Ellie finds herself whisked off to America--to Mud Creek, Illinois--and to a gothic mansion straight out of a horror movie. Immortalized years ago in a Hollywood film starring a sexy actress who happens to have the leading role iri this season's bestselling expose, Monster Mommy, Melancholy Mansion is no place for a woman in Ellie's delicate condition. Within its shadowy confines, danger lurks behind every chafing dish. And when murder is suddenly added to the menu, it falls to amateur sleuth Ellie to serve up an unsavory killer with a taste for foul play. This is #4 in An Ellie Haskell Mystery.
Femmes Fatal
DescriptionOnce Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale: the one about the overweight, underpaid interior designer who falls rapturously in love with a gorgeous prince and lives happily ever after. But now, four months after the birth of her twins, her worst nightmare has come true: the princess has turned into a frog and the bliss has gone out of the bedroom.Can a course in the sensual arts, featuring naughty nighties and Peach Melba Love Rub, rekindle the romance she and her adored Bentley once shared? It's a question that leads Ellie straight to an organization called Fully Female. But before she can say "Marriage Makeover," one fellow vamp becomes a sex-crazed zombie and another meets her end in a fatally frothy bubble bath. Then a third victim of amour turns up dead, and Ellie realizes it's more than ill luck. Can Ellie catch a crazed killer before love gets a bad name.
Goodbye, Ms. Chips (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 13)
Description“Ellie, the headmistress wants to see you.”
The Widow's Club
DescriptionStylish, amusing, and deliciously wicked, the Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell are hired to investigate a woman's organization whose members choose widowhood over divorce. With the help of a newlywed friend, the spinster sleuths stalk the mastermind of matrimonial murder. HC: Bantam.Cannell Dorothy News![]()
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