Miss Melville Regrets
Miss Melville Regrets

Author: Evelyn E. Smith

Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM

Published: 2024-06-04

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1631943138

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Good breeding simply doesn’t pay the rent anymore. And while Miss Melville has bucketloads of breeding, she finds herself somewhat...lacking, shall we say, when it comes to finances. Distinctly lacking. Her rich friends are no help; they think “broke” means having to buy a smaller yacht. What is an impoverished gentlewoman to do? Become a killer for hire, of course. But Miss Melville (who prefers the term “hitwoman”) doesn’t take just any job, no matter how well paid. That kind of sordid money-grubbing is beneath contempt. No, she reserves her talents for those who...let’s say those who really deserve them. It’s true, her ancestors would roll in their graves at the thought of Miss Melville working—and for a paycheck, my dear! But finger sandwiches and opera tickets don’t come cheap: One does what one must.

Sleuths in Skirts
Sleuths in Skirts

Author: Frances A. DellaCava

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780815338840

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This volume is a comprehensive collection of critical essays on The Taming of the Shrew, and includes extensive discussions of the play's various printed versions and its theatrical productions. Aspinall has included only those essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play. The issues discussed include gender, authority, female autonomy and unruliness, courtship and marriage, language and speech, and performance and theatricality.

Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)
Mystery Women, Volume Two (Revised)

Author: Colleen Barnett

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

Published: 2011-12-31

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 1615950095

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Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women as sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs as well as for the mystery hound. Look at the popularity of such reading guides as Willetta Heising's Detecting Women (3rd ed. 0-9644593-7-X) or Amanda Cross' fiction (Honest Doubt 0-345-44011-0 11/00).

Sequels
Sequels

Author: Janet G. Husband

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2009-07-30

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 0838909671

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A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

Women & Aging
Women & Aging

Author: Helen Rippier Wheeler

Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781555876616

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Guide with more than two thousand bibliographic entries and cross-references. It includes journal articles, book chapters, essays, and doctoral dissertations, as well as complete books.

The Chinese Chop
The Chinese Chop

Author: Juanita Sheridan

Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM

Published: 2024-07-02

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1631943154

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With World War II only barely in the rear view mirror, New York apartments are scarcer than hen’s teeth. Janice Cameron has moved to the City to be a writer, trading Honolulu’s sun and flowers for Manhattan in the grip of icy winter. She’s imagined her own cunning little flat, a little table by the window, a little lace cloth...fat chance! Her own flat is completely out of the question, and in fact she’s going to have to share a boarding-house bedroom with a perfect stranger. At least the stranger is perfect: Lily Wu is beautiful, exquisitely dressed, and swathed in mystery. But Janice hasn’t even unpacked before a rather less exquisite mystery intrudes. True, the handyman wasn’t brilliant at maintaining the boiler, but murder seems a rather extreme response. In the best Golden Age tradition, the rooming house is crammed with intriguing suspects, from the tortured musician to the French emigree to the actress with a face for radio. Lily and Janice would much prefer to leave, but they’ve nowhere to go. Solving the murder seems the best possible option, especially since if someone were arrested and taken away...well, that would free up a room, now wouldn’t it?

Wooden Overcoat
Wooden Overcoat

Author: Pamela Branch

Publisher: FelonyandMayhem+ORM

Published: 2024-04-30

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1631943111

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A comedy of manners and the odd dead body London is full of clubs. The Garrick, for example, caters to those with theatrical inclinations, the Athenaeum to eggheads. But the Asterisk may have the strictest membership regulations: Acquitted murderers only. Happily, Benjamin Cann fits the brief. Sure, he strangled Rachel Bolger with a length of pongee silk, but the jury thought different, so while Benji's old landlord may not want him back, the Asterisk gang—suave Clifford Flush (pushed ladies off trains), Mitteleuropean sexpot Lilli Cluj (crushed her husband with a bumper-car), et al.—offers a warm welcome. Benji doesn't love the thought of sharing digs with people more than usually inclined to poison the sherry, but the motherly Mrs. Barratt (dosed Mr. B with ground glass) is delighted. So nice to have fresh blood. And it will be such fun to watch him meet the neighbors!

The Mystery Fancier
The Mystery Fancier

Author: William F. Deeck

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2008-08-01

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0941028119

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A bibliography of various mystery novels published between November 1976 and Fall 1992.