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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a human skeleton turns up on the grounds of Bracketts House, the historic home of children's author Esmond Chadleigh, Carole Seddon and her bohemian neighbor, Jude, investigate whether or not the famed late writer was responsible.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While waitressing at the Hopwicke Country House Hotel as a favor for a friend, Jude becomes involved in murder when a member of the Pillars of Sussex, a group of local businessmen, is found dead and Jude suspects foul play.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Berkley Prime Crime hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
An engagement party for Carole Seddon's son takes a strange turn when the reclusive father of the bride mysteriously vanishes during the party, only to be found brutally murdered the following morning.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st world ed.
Physical Desc
202 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Enduring his part in a touring production of Hamlet that features reality television contest winners in the lead roles, actor and amateur detective Charles Paris investigates an accident that has killed a company member.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
201 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jude agrees to lend her vintage chaise longue for the local Amateur Dramatics Society's production of George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, little does she realize she'll end up in a starring role. It's an ambitious play, culminating in a dramatic execution scene: a scene that's played for real when one of the leading actors is found hanging from the especially-constructed stage gallows during rehearsals. A tragic accident--or something...
Author
Series
Publisher
Creme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never before encountered is a dead body. When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased homeowner's son, who has recently absconded from prison. No doubt Nate Ogden is...
Author
Series
Decluttering mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ellen Curtis is about to have her own life thrown into chaos in this third light-hearted decluttering mystery! Declutterer Ellen Curtis has been working to bring order into the life of Cedric Waites, a recluse in his eighties who hasn't left his house or let anyone inside it since his wife died. On one of her regular visits, Ellen finds the old man dead. Sad but, given his age, perhaps not unexpected. Nothing to get worked up about... until the police...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cr�eme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the connection between her late husband and a wealthy man who has recently passed away, Mrs. Pargeter finds herself in a shady world of gun-runners, shifty politicians, and high-profile abductions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
469 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Fethering! Sleuthing neighbours Jude and Carole uncover secrets and lies in the horsing community in this quirky, light-hearted British cozy mystery.
When healer Jude pays a visit to Long Bamber Stables one evening - to meet her unusually horse-shaped new client and his owner Sonia Dalrymple - she does not expect to stumble across a man lying in the darkness. Walter Fleet, co-owner of the stables, has been viciously stabbed to death.
Sleuthing...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cr�eme de la Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
185 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jude joins a committee to save the local cake shop, she finds the meetings fraught with petty power struggles and monstrous egos, a situation that worsens when she and Carole find a dead body with a link to the shop.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crème de la Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
439 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It wasn't the rain that upset Carole Seddon during her walk on the West Sussex Downs, nor was it the dilapidated barn in which she sought shelter. What upset her was the human skeleton she discovered there, neatly packed into two blue fertilizer bags. Thus begins the mystery for strait-laced Carole and her more laid-back neighbor Jude, whose investigation takes them to the small hamlet of Weldisham. There gossips quickly identify the corpse as Tamsin...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
453 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Fethering! Carole has a bad hair day when a haircut leads to murder in this quirky, cozy, British village mystery.
The last thing Carole expects when she goes to Connie's Clip Joint for a trim is to find the body of Kyra, Connie's assistant, in the back room.
Kyra's boyfriend, Nathan, has vanished, but his family, an eccentric, controlling bunch, don't seem overly concerned. Instead, they are bizarrely obsessed with a family board game...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
427 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jude wanders into Fethering's local bookies she has no idea that she will shortly be investigating the murder of Polish immigrant Tadeusz Jankowski. With her partner in crime, friend and next-door-neighbour Carole Seddon, she's determined to discover who killed him - and why? There are several favorites in the running: A mysterious woman in the bookies? The charming lecturer at the university? Or the mysterious attacker from whom Jude only narrowly...