COLD AND PURE AND VERY DEAD [Paperback]

Joanne Dobson (Author)

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• Paperback
• Publisher: Unknown (2000)
• ASIN: B0028QEAAA
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Wearing my creative hat (as distinct from my scholar's mortarboard),I am the author of the Professor Karen Pelletier academic mystery novels. In both my fiction and my scholarly work on 19th-century American women writers, I am fascinated with the past. Maybe that's because I sometimes feel as if I have lived in three different centuries. Born in New York City in the middle of the 20th-century, I spent all my summers at my grandmother's remote, 19th-century non-electrified home in northern New Brunswick, Canada, carrying wood for the stove, pumping water for the laundry, each morning disposing of the unmentionable contents of something I thought was spelled "p-o-e," but was really spelled "p-o-t" (as in chamber ...)and pronounced in the French manner for reasons of discretion. Now, in the 21st century, I am writing novels whose mysteries are often based in the past. DEATH WITHOUT TENURE is the most recent, published by Poisoned Pen Press in January 2010.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An obscure book leads to murder, October 6, 2002

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This review is from: Cold and Pure and Very Dead (Karen Pelletier Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

While being interviewed by a NYT reporter Dr. Karen Pelletier states her opinion that the best book of the 20th century was an obscure book from the fifties, called Oblivion Falls. It was based on a true scandal in a college town. The author disappeared a few years later never to be heard from again. After the interview, sales of the book skyrocketed, and the reporter searched for Mildred Deakens, the author. He found her and ended up dead in her driveway. Millie was arrested, but claims to be innocent. Letters from her to Karen have been stolen, and there are rumors about her and a visiting writer.

This is a very good addition to the series. All of the characters from the previous novels have been developed more fully and so has Karen's relationship with Lt. Piotrowski. I really loved this one and finished it in one sitting.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mystery series, November 20, 2011

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This review is from: Cold and Pure and Very Dead (Karen Pelletier Mysteries) (Kindle Edition)

This is the first in a really great mystery series involving an English professor. The characters are great. The mysteries are very interesting and always involve some sort of literary puzzle. And the satire of academia is very entertaining. How does anyone take that literary jargon seriously?

Great books!

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Baltimore novel, October 13, 2010

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I have enjoyed reading the Karen Pelletier series of academic so much that I cannot wait to get them all read. They are not all on the Kindle but I have purchased 4 in paperback from Amazon. These books never cease to entertain me or captivate me. I have a B.A. degree in English and Karen has a Ph.D. I often wonder how my life would have changed like Karen's if I had pursued a Ph.D. as she did.