Scene of Crime

Author	Simon Brett
ISBN	0230014585

The Poisoning in the Pub is the 10th mystery in Simon Brett's alliteratively titled Fethering Series. This is a neat and clever way of quickly identifying the books in this series. The stories are set in "Fethering", a fictitious village on the South Coast of West Sussex, England, close to the South Downs...

Author	Thomas Godfrey
ISBN	0892963557

Nothing could seem more civilized, more orderly and sedate than a weekend at one of Great Britain's country estates. Yet these staid, conservative houses play host to a wider variety of murders than do the mean streets of America's darkest cities.

Contents:
The adventure of the Abbey...

Author	Barry Maitland
ISBN	0142000825

When Scotland Yard detectives David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer of rare stamps, they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of wrongdoing encountered in the Serious Crime Branch. Instead, they find themselves on the trail of...

Author	Ann Granger
ISBN	0747244626

In the heart of the leafy Cotswolds a body is found. A teenage girl, probably local, somebody's daughter who went out one evening and didn't come back. It is not long before she is identified: fifteen-year-old Lynne Wills who habitually drank underage in 'The Silver Bells' pub and, on the night of her...

Author	James Anderson
ISBN	1590582918

Who ever tires of the zany British country house murder?

"But Lavinia, I don't want people staying here," said the Earl. "After the last two house parties, we agreed no more."
"This wouldn't be a house party, George, it's nine guests for one night."
"But the last two times we've had people...

Author	Patricia Wentworth
ISBN	0340689714

When she found the body of her beloved Uncle Jonathan, Georgina's mind went blank. Instinctively, she stooped to pick up the revolver, thus becoming the prime suspect. For Georgina stood to inherit a large fortune when her uncle died. But Uncle Jonathan had a second secret will and the beneficiary is...

Author	Rebecca Tope
ISBN	0312265700

Fifty-five-year-old Jim Lapsford makes an unusually healthy-looking corpse. A life-long devotee of vitamin pills and herbal remedies, it seems almost ironic that he has succumbed to a heart attack, but his doctor is convinced that this is the case.

Trainee undertaker Drew Slocombe isn't...

Author	Gilbert Adair
ISBN	0571234259

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As Evadne Mount, bestselling crime novelist, discovers, however, all six did have a motive for committing...

Author	Gladys Mitchell
ISBN	0915230844

Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their next school performance and, in recognition of her generous offer to finance the production, their meek and self-effacing arithmetic mistress is offered a key role.

But when she disappears mid-way through the opening night performance...

Author	Ruth Rendell
ISBN	0345349512

Gossip in tiny Linchester is raised to new heights when young Patrick Selby dies on the night of his beautiful wife's birthday party. The whole neighborhood was there, witness to the horrible attack of wasps Peter suffered at the end of the evening. But did Peter die of the stings? Dr. Greenleaf thinks...

Author	Shamini Flint
ISBN	0749929774

Inspector Singh is home - and how he wishes he wasn't. His wife nags him at breakfast and his superiors are whiling away their time by giving him his usual 'you're a disgrace to the force' lecture. Fortunately for Singh, there is no rest for the wicked when he is called out to the murder of a senior partner...

Author	Nancy Fairbanks
ISBN	0425203999

2.5 stars
Pretty light and cozy. It was a kinda weird combination of mystery, comedy and recipe book!
The characters sometimes were too silly for my cup of tea, but the story was keep going, soit didnt bother me that much.
I did not like some things, like the way some characters were thinking...

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Donna Jo Napoli

I read this because my eldest brought it home from the library, saying that she had already read it. I was curious to see what she was into.

I wish i had known that this was a sequel. It seemed like there was information missing that would have made the story more interesting.

It is a cute...

Author	Andrew M. Greeley
ISBN	0765315890

Matters of succession lead to attempted murder in the latest of Greeley's popular mysteries.
Archbishop Malachi Nolan has designs on the Diocese of Chicago despite the fact the Most Reverend Blackwood Ryan, himself recently appointed an archbishop, is currently in line for the post. Assigned...