Marian Babson
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“A top-notch thriller . . . The identities of the murderer and the twelfth victim come as a stunner” (Publishers Weekly).
At Maude Daneson’s rooming house, the holiday season has everyone bustling about in anticipation, and Maude herself is planning a glorious Christmas dinner.
But neither the landlady nor her lodgers realize that a killer walks among them. The police...
At Maude Daneson’s rooming house, the holiday season has everyone bustling about in anticipation, and Maude herself is planning a glorious Christmas dinner.
But neither the landlady nor her lodgers realize that a killer walks among them. The police...
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The “consistently witty” Agatha Award–winning author presents a tale of murder in a country mansion (Mystery News).
With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. When Midge gets a call from an old classmate who arranges “mystery tours” for visiting Americans, she happily agrees to host...
With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. When Midge gets a call from an old classmate who arranges “mystery tours” for visiting Americans, she happily agrees to host...
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Aging actress Dame Cecile Savoy is on the way to a Brighton taxidermist's shop, accompanied by her friends Trixie and Evangeline-and her recently departed Pekingese. But when they arrive, they discover a dead body, a spreading fire, and a helpless Japanese bobtail cat in a cage.
After rescuing the endangered kitty, aka Cho-Cho-San, Trixie and Evangeline now have another heroic task to attempt: finding out who's responsible, and what sort of person...
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Vance is an experienced female impersonator, so when his beloved twin sister, Vanessa, winds up in a coma after a suspicious fall, he has a unique way to investigate. Using her clothes and makeup-and his striking resemblance to his twin-he works his way into the remote castle of Vanessa's wealthy employer, along with a harem of other women. With help from a doctor, Vance poses as an amnesiac Vanessa and is able to fool everyone-with the exception...
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Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a scandalous murder trial. Cousin Chloe stands accused of stabbing her identical twin sister, Claudia, and Margot's well-to-do relatives are, understandably, a mess-that is to say, even more dysfunctional than usual. One is eating compulsively to cope with the stress; Claudia's teenage daughter is hiding out in her bedroom; the paparazzi are hounding...
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Brimful Coffers mysteries volume 1
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Agatha Award–Winning Author: When a book critic dies in an English village, a mystery-writing sleuth smells a rat.
A number of mystery authors, including Lorinda Lucas, call the village of Brimful Coffers home. Occasionally, there is a violent death . . . for example, the demise of a hapless rat, done in by Lorinda's two kitties.
But when the victims are book critic Plantagenet Sutton and a visiting writer, Lorinda finds the case much more difficult...
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London public relations firm Perkins & Tate has a potentially lucrative new client: the American country singer known as Black Bart. Unfortunately, the Nashville sensation comes with a reputation for chasing underage groupies-and an entourage that includes both his comedienne wife and her driven, controlling stage mother... who soon dies under highly suspicious circumstances.
Now Douglas Perkins and his partner, Gerry Tate, need to put the best...
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A group of tourists has arrived in London-shaken by the mysterious death of one of their fellow travelers back in Zurich. Larkin's Luxury Tours is represented by the public relations firm of Perkins & Tate-so it's up to Douglas Perkins, with a little assistance from his cat, Pandora, to soothe their fears, boost their spirits... and prevent them from demanding refunds.
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On a dare from the local boys, lonely eleven-year-old Robin sneaks into a neighbor's house to steal their pedigree cat. But he doesn't expect the terrifying scene that awaits him. After a loud dispute echoes from above-and the man of the house comes down the stairs covered in blood-Robin makes a run for it. But the killer knows someone was there, and when he talks to the police, he figures the mysterious intruder is the perfect person to pin the murder...
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Trixie and Evangeline's shared kitchen is unusually crowded as Trixie's daughter, Martha, tests recipes for her upcoming cookbook, with help from her editor. But as they rush to meet their deadline, a few more people show up unexpectedly . . . including the husband of the cookbook's original author, now mysteriously deceased, who Martha replaced.
When one of these unwanted guests turns up dead, the truth will have to come out eventually-and Trixie...
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Endicott Zayle is a dentist to the rich and famous-as well as to public relations partners Doug Perkins and Gerry Tate. Now, he desperately needs their help. It looks like his use of an experimental anesthetic has come back to bite him, and a beautiful model lies dead in his dentist's chair.
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A millionaire's cat may be the key to a murder mystery in this delightful novel from an Agatha Award–winning author.
When Annabel Hinchby-Smythe accepts an offer to serve as interior decorator to computer mogul Arthur Arbuthnot, she can't help noticing that no one in the house seems to genuinely like the tycoon-aside from his cat, Sally.
After Arthur's sudden death-and the revelation that Sally is named sole inheritor in his will-Annabel's new...
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British public relations firm Perkins & Tate are used to dealing with show business-but this time, the celebrities are cats. The company's been hired to publicize a major event for cat fanciers, but even if the felines in attendance are dignified, elegant, and well trained, the same doesn't always hold true for the humans...
After a valuable cat statue disappears-and the exhibit's much-disliked organizer is found dead in a cage with two Sumatran...
14) The Diamond Cat
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A pigeon in the sky with diamonds pulls an ordinary woman into a perilous mystery, in this novel by an Agatha Award–winning author.
Bettina Bilby doesn't have much fun living with her nagging, critical mother-but at least this weekend she gets to temporarily take in her friend's four cats. Then, after a rainstorm, one of her four-footed guests finds a dead carrier pigeon-and a fortune in diamonds-outside the house.
As Bettina wonders what to do...
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Brimful Coffers mysteries volume 2
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A decomposing body ... a severed head in a closet ... a macabre meeting with "Mother"-mystery writer Lorinda Lucas tosses yet another paperback in the trash, appalled at the gruesome direction of today's crime fiction. She's even more disturbed at the half-starved state of Roscoe, the cat next door. Before Lorinda left for her latest book tour, Roscoe was as plump and pampered as her own two felines, Had-I and But-Known.
It only takes a modicum of...
16) Paws for Alarm
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A whisker away from death …A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family-and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect … until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper. Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting...
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In this hilarious tour de chat, Marian Babson goes beyond the many bubbling mysteries she has written to add an element of comic fantasy to the menace of murder. Someone is trying to kill leading British Shakespearean actor, husband, father, ladies' man, and soon-to-be knight of the realm Winstanley Fortescue. The actor, rehearsing his starring role in the forthcoming play Serpent in the Heather, is conked on the head backstage. He falls off a ladder...