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The Christie Caper (Death on Demand Mysteries, No. 7) Mass Market Paperback – April 1, 1992
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- Print length400 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherCrimeline
- Publication dateApril 1, 1992
- Dimensions4.18 x 1.05 x 6.79 inches
- ISBN-109780553295696
- ISBN-13978-0553295696
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Beware the false face;
Can’t trust someone in this place.
Great minds have great ideas. Neil Bledsoe enjoyed a very good opinion of himself, but the inspiration which had struck so abruptly was brilliant, peerless—and the answer to all his problems.
Where the hell was that brochure? Impatiently, he dumped the wastebasket, ignoring the cigar ashes and crumpled balls of printer paper. He found it finally and spread open the wrinkled flyer. Quality printing, quality paper. No expense spared.
The first panel told the story:
THE CHRISTIE CAPER
A Centennial Celebration of the birth of
AGATHA CHRISTIE
The greatest detective-story writer of all time
September 9–September 15
The Palmetto House
Broward’s Rock Island, South Carolina
Co-sponsored by England’s Present-Day Crime
Queen
Lady Gwendolyn Tompkins
and DEATH ON DEMAND Bookstore
Proprietor Annie Laurance Darling”
They’d all be there, all those bloody women writers and editors and agents and the damn pansy men who wrote whodunits instead of real blood-and-guts mysteries.
Neil leaned forward, selected a cigar from his humidor. When it was lit, he rolled the oily smoke over his tongue, savoring the pungent, masculine odor that enveloped him. Women hated cigars. So he smoked them everywhere. Especially in elevators. Inevitably, some skinny bitch complained, stabbed a red-nailed finger at the No Smoking sign. Neil took great pleasure in telling her where she could stick it. No-smoking laws were a joke. Was some asshole going to make a citizen’s arrest? Of him? He shifted his two-hundred-pound bulk until he could see his dark visage in that prissy damn mirror that Pamela’d put up. All that was left of Pamela.
A face to reckon with. Heavy, black brows drawn in a menacing frown. Florid, acne-scarred skin, tougher than leather. Nobody’d ever mistake him for one of those pansy writers.
And they hated him.
Hated him and feared him.
By God, he’d crash their party. He flipped through the brochure. A garden party, author panels, English dinners, a classic-car display, a Christie Treasure Hunt, a Christie Trivia Quiz, the Agatha Christie Come-as-You-Wish-You-Were Ball. He scanned the list of authors scheduled to attend. Bubbles of laughter stirred in his chest. Holy shit, it couldn’t be better. A conference filled wall-to-wall with his enemies. And if they weren’t enemies when he got there, he’d make damn sure they were before he left.
The registration form and hotel reservation slip were on the last panel of the brochure. Despite the cigar clamped in his teeth, his mouth split in a ferocious grin as he wrote his name in bold, black strokes.
Oh, Christ, was he going to raise hell.
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Lucky, lovely, rich Linnet.
Luckiest girl in the world—or is she?
Victoria Shaw stood in front of the rural mailbox, the envelope in her hand. Her heart thudded. She’d walked up the lane too fast. Janice kept urging her to have a check-up. But what did it matter, really, how many heartbeats remained? She hadn’t cared, not since—
No, no, no. She wouldn’t think about it. She would not.
The frail hand holding the envelope trembled. If she mailed this letter, if she attended the conference, wouldn’t it reawaken not only the anguish but the poisonous fury that had corroded her spirit when Bryan died?
Not unless she permitted it to do so. She had learned one painful lesson these past lonely years. The mind could be controlled.
Not joyfully, perhaps, but effectively. Victoria had been forced to learn that lesson or go mad.
This conference, after all, was at least in part a tribute to Bryan’s greatness. Of course, its focus was upon Agatha Christie’s legacy to the world of the mystery, but Bryan was one of several authors of classic mysteries who were scheduled to be recognized in a retrospective for their contributions to the traditional mystery.
Bryan would be admired, praised. Once again his books would be talked about, valued.
She could hear the chug of the postman’s car, coming up the lane. Quickly, her heart pounding, Victoria yanked open the mailbox, thrust the letter inside.
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- ASIN : 0553295691
- Publisher : Crimeline (April 1, 1992)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 400 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780553295696
- ISBN-13 : 978-0553295696
- Item Weight : 8 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.18 x 1.05 x 6.79 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #797,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #14,024 in Amateur Sleuths
- #22,571 in Women Sleuths (Books)
- #36,954 in Suspense Thrillers
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If you love Topper and Blithe Spirit, celebrate Christmas with It's a Wonderful Life, and live to laugh, please join the Late Bailey Ruth Raeburn, Heaven's irrepressible sleuth, on the Rescue Express October 1 In GHOST GONE WILD. Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help a scruffy but lovable 20-something-video-game inventor who has lots of money and just as many enemies. Bailey Ruth foils a shooting, but discovers her Heavenly supervisor has no idea she's on earth and this time she may never make it back to Heaven!
DEAD, WHITE AND BLUE is the 23rd in the Death on Demand series. Annie Darling insists a woman can't disappear without a trace but a sultry siren walks into the pines on the Fourth of July and no one has seen her since.
For more about Carolyn's books and comments, please visit her website at www.CarolynHart.com
Carolyn writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost.
Carolyn is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is mewly available this month from Seventh Street Books. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.
In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Ghost Gone Wild puts Bailey Ruth at risk of never returning to Heaven.
Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.
Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.
Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.
Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.
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to Amazon. Hesitated for quite awhile about ordering this book thinking it might prove to be disappointing. It did not. I thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to new and old (not referring to age here) Christie fans. Some of the previously written reviews were somewhat confusing, though. Can't understand how you can have too much Christie when the main objective of the book was to celebrate her 100th birthday and include an exceptionally good mystery surrounding the celebration.
It was great fun trying to guess the title of the books from the clue sheet. Surprisingly enough, there is one error in one of the clues.
I think I read all the previous reviews and didn't see it mentioned. If you are a staunch fan of Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, you will probably spot it. Yes, I'm sure. My only criticism of the book would be the places where there is too much description as to the hotel, rooms, etc. That would apply to most books, however.
For me, this book represents a delightful trip back to the time I first enjoyed reading Agatha Christie. My sincere thanks to Carolyn Hart.
Somehow I missed this early edition and immediately purchased it when I saw it on a page listing the series.
I loved it, it had the right amount of history/background and inner action of Annie and Max.
Like all her mysteries are well rounded and characters and just deep enough, without giving you the outright fact that shows the murderer in a different light.
I love reading on the Kindle, lighter and easier to carry. I'm so glad Hart's books are available on it.
As far as Carolyn Hart......keep up the good work, your mysteries are "just right".
Loved Agatha Christie's books, but this simply didn't compare with that level at all.
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Positives: I loved the tributes to Agatha Christie - these were scattered throughout the book and were a pleasure to read. The main characters were likable and I enjoyed reading some of their exploits. The ending was quite satisfactory and solvable (I know, because I had a pretty good idea whodunit from about half-way through, if you are a fan of Mrs Christie, you too should see the parallels). The villain of the piece was a despicable person (at time, almost a pantomime villain).
Negatives: The plot moved far too slowly in places and I kept losing interest. Parts of the story are too dark for this to be a truly cosy mystery. Some of the extra characters lacked depth.
All-in-all, this isn't a bad book, but I can't say it is anywhere near one of my best reads this year. I gave it 3 stars because of the AC links - without them, I probably would have given up before the end. I will, however, try others in this series.