Grab Bag

Grab Bag

224 pages
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Published: 1 Jan 1987
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ISBN: 9780380750993

Format: Paperback

Language: English

Publisher: Avon Books

Publication date: 1 January 1987

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They're all ready to pop out of this potpourri of perilous predicaments from the Queen of the Whimsical Whodunit. Featuring all her favorite sleuths - Max Bittersohn and Sarah Kelling, Professor Peter Shandy, August Fox - and the eccentric enclaves of New England's cities and countryside, these short stories are packed with wacky, wonderful humor and good old-fashioned suspense.There's murder in a massage parlor, dreadful doings at a British dinner party, larceny for sale at a general store, sinister schemes at Balaclava College, and merry mayhem from Boston to Maine - in this grab bag of fun-filled mysteries, which includes five never-before-published tales of murder most foul.Contents:• Homecoming (Sarah Kelling and Max Bittersohn)• Monique• Rest You Merry (Peter Shandy)• Fifty Acres of Prime Seaweed• It Was an Awful Shame• The Mysterious Affair of the Beaird-Wynnington Dirigible Airship (Augustus Fox)• A Snatch in Time• Clean Slate• The Felonious Courtship of Miles Peabody• Force of Habit• Better a Cat• Lady Patterly’s Lover• Journey for Lady G.• Assignment: Marriage• More Like Martine• The Dastardly Dilemma of the Vicious Vaudevillian (Augustus Fox)