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Swing Town Mysteries: Dorie Lennox Box Set by Lise McClendon (
SYKM), a 3-in-1 omnibus edition of her eponymous 1930s/40s historical mystery series starring a PI in Missouri, comprising the first two novels which came out from St. Martin's Press' Minotaur imprint in 2001 & 2002, and a newly-written short story. We've previously received both novels separately several years ago, but the short is new.
A convincing re-creation of time, place, and a hard-nosed, emotionally scarred heroine
Dorie Lennox is a newly-minted private detective in Kansas City, Missouri, just as war breaks out in Europe in 1939. These two novels follow Dorie's adventures through the corrupt back alleys of the city, from jazz clubs to meatpacking plants, in her $25 Packard with bullet holes in the trunk. Dorie is damaged goods, a veteran of reform school and family tragedy, like many children of the Depression. Half the KC Police Department has been found dirty and fired. Dorie is eager, but green. Her boss, a Brit with ruined lungs, has no choice to send her out on the streets with her switchblade, tailing girlfriends and wayward daughters, trying to make the world safe again.
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Murder Mystery Book Club Volume One, a 5-in-1 omnibus edition of 1st-in-series novels by various Accent Press authors, including Lesley Cookman (
SYKM), Andrea Frazer, Jean G. Goodhind, Caroline Dunford, & Dane McCaslin.
Something in the Blood – Book One in the Honey Driver Mysteries
Honey Driver runs a hotel in Bath. She also collects antique underwear. As her own boss, she's in charge one day and washing dishes the next, resisting her mother's match-making attempts and managing multiple responsibilities - mundane, safe, and unexciting.
Then one day things change. Honey lands the job of liaising with the police on behalf of Bath Hotels Association. No worries, she tells herself. Nothing will happen; then an American tourist goes missing and Honey is called in to help. Despite the on/off hostility of her police opposite number, D C I Steve Doherty, she sticks to the task. In the process Honey finds out that there's more to work than washing dishes, and more to murder than malice aforethought.
Murder in Steeple Martin – Book One in the Libby Sarjeant Murder Mysteries
Artist and ex-actress Libby Sarjeant is busy directing a play for the opening of a new theatre in her village when one of her cast is found murdered.
The play, written by her friend Peter, is based on real events in his family, which took place in the village during the last war. As the investigation into the murder begins to uncover a tangled web of relationships in the village, it seems that the events dramatised in the play still cast a long shadow…dark enough to inspire murder.
Libby s natural nosiness soon leads her into the thick of the investigation, but is she too close to Peter’s family to be able to recognise the murderer?
Strangeways to Oldham – Book One in the Belchester Chronicles
Lady Amanda Golightly of Belchester Towers is a person in complete contrast to the stereotypical image of one of her breeding. She is short, portly, and embarrassingly forthright. If she wasn’t calling a spade a shovel, it was only because she was calling it 'trumps'!
On a visit to a local nursing home where an old business partner of her father's is residing, she unexpectedly discovers a long-lost friend, Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump – and stumbles upon murder as well.
Installing Hugo in the more civilised and comfortable surroundings of Belchester Towers, the pair turn to sleuthing after Lady Amanda reports her appalling discovery to the local police inspector and is incensed when he treats her as a silly old biddy with an over-active imagination. Her outrage prompts her to teach the impertinent young whipper-snapper a lesson, and she and Hugo (Zimmer frame in tow) embark upon their first investigation, only for murder to become a distressingly frequent occurrence …
A Death in the Family – Book One of the Euphemia Martin Mysteries
In December 1909 the Very Rev Joshia Martins expires in a dish of mutton and onions leaving his family on the brink of destitution.
Abandoned by her noble grandfather, Joshia’s daughter, the eighteen year old Euphemia, takes it on herself to provide for her mother and little brother by entering service. She’s young, fit, intelligent, a little naive and assumes the life of a maid won’t be too demanding. However, on her first day at the unhappy home of Lord Stapleford she discovers a dead body.
Euphemia’s innate sense of justice has her prying where no servant should look and uncovering some Stapleford secrets…
Becklaw’s Murder Mystery Tour
Josephine Anderson, youngest of the immense Anderson clan, has an itch to travel and to put some distance between herself and Piney Woods, Louisiana, and she is determined to scratch it with a stint as a travelling actor for a murder mystery dinner show. With Beatrice Becklaw in the pilot’s seat, the troupe of four amateur actors hit the circuit – and hit the end of the tour when a real dead body stops the show. Jo’s fondness for Miss Bea is the impetus to find out just who ruined the tour, and the person she least suspects is the one she needs to watch.