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Authors: Joan Hess
The problem lay in my inclinations to meddle in what Lieutenant Peter Rosen felt was official police business. It wasn't simply a compulsion to outsleuth Miss Marple. In all the situations I'd found myself questioning witnesses and snooping around crime scenes, I'd never once done so for my personal satisfactionâor to make fools of the local constabulary. It just happened. Peter, with his molasses brown eyes, curly hair, perfect teeth, and undeniable charm, never quite saw it that way. He'd lectured me, had my car impounded twice, threatened me with a jail cell, and attempted to keep me under house arrest. One had to admire his optimism.
Strangled Prose
Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
Dear Miss Demeanor
Roll Over and Play Dead
A Diet to Die For
A Really Cute Corpse
Death by the Light of the Moon
Poisoned Pins
Closely Akin to Murder
Busy Bodies
Tickled to Death
A Holly, Jolly Murder
A Conventional Corpse
Out on a Limb
The Goodbye Body
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
A HOLLY, JOLLY MURDER
Copyright © 1997 by Joan Hess.
Excerpt from
Damsels in Distress
© 2006 by Joan Hess.
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