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Ladybug, Ladybug
"Brilliant and charming, young Kevin Cannivan rejected the Ivy League-choosing instead to enter an obscure Catholic seminary in Coldwater, Connecticut. Now, four months later, Kevin is unaccountably dead and his distraught mother has turned for help to a quartet of able senior sleuths known locally as the "Hometown Heroes." A former socialite, a courtly doctor, a crusty ex-police chief and his earthy lady love, these four have solved heinous crimes before. But this investigation is stranding the geriatric group behind cloistered walls that guard a plethora of grievous sins, past and present ... and unholy secrets that will inevitably lead to more murder"--Page 2 of cover
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The Pumpkin-shell Wife
Alarmed by the death of a wealthy woman from their town, four elderly Raven's Wing residents--recently divorced Mildred Bennett, former police chief Forrest T. Haggarty, nurse Irene Purdy, and retired physician Trevor Bradford--join forces to solve the cr
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Ladybug, Ladybug
The Hometown Heroes, four aged detectives from Raven's Wing, Connecticut, return to look into the mysterious death of a charming young man who left Yale to study for the priesthood at a small college.
Ladybug, Ladybug
"Brilliant and charming, young Kevin Cannivan rejected the Ivy League-choosing instead to enter an obscure Catholic seminary in Coldwater, Connecticut. Now, four months later, Kevin is unaccountably dead and his distraught mother has turned for help to a quartet of able senior sleuths known locally as the "Hometown Heroes." A former socialite, a courtly doctor, a crusty ex-police chief and his earthy lady love, these four have solved heinous crimes before. But this investigation is stranding the geriatric group behind cloistered walls that guard a plethora of grievous sins, past and present ... and unholy secrets that will inevitably lead to more murder"--Page 2 of cover
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Mystery Women, Volume Three (Revised)
Like other fictional characters, female sleuths may live in the past or the future. They may represent current times with some level of reality or shape their settings to suit an agenda. There are audiences for both realism and escapism in the mystery novel. It is interesting, however, to compare the fictional world of the mystery sleuth with the world in which readers live. Of course, mystery readers do not share one simplistic world. They live in urban, suburban, and rural areas, as do the female heroines in the books they read. They may choose a book because it has a familiar background or because it takes them to places they long to visit. Readers may be rich or poor; young or old; conse...
Pumpkin
Why do so many Americans drive for miles each autumn to buy a vegetable that they are unlikely to eat? While most people around the world eat pumpkin throughout the year, North Americans reserve it for holiday pies and other desserts that celebrate the harvest season and the rural past. They decorate their houses with pumpkins every autumn and welcome Halloween trick-or-treaters with elaborately carved jack-o'-lanterns. Towns hold annual pumpkin festivals featuring giant pumpkins and carving contests, even though few have any historic ties to the crop. In this fascinating cultural and natural history, Cindy Ott tells the story of the pumpkin. Beginning with the myth of the first Thanksgiving...
