Dead Man's Island-Large Print [Hardcover]

Carolyn G. Hart (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: G.K. Hall; Lrg edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0816158746
• ISBN-13: 978-0816158744
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,321,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Hart talks about mysteries and writing in a new interview on Oklahoma public tv. Please visit www.CarolynHart.com and click on the link in the upper right hand column.

In April Berkley Prime Crime will publish DEATH COMES SILENTLY, the 22nd Death on Demand title. Coming in October is WHAT THE CAT SAW, a novel of suspense.

Carolyn writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost.

Carolyn is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is now available for the first time in its complete uncut version. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.

In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Coming in 2013 is HIJACKED GHOST which puts Bailey Ruth at risk of ever returning to Heaven.

Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.

Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.

Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.

Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting whodunit!, April 3, 2002

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Karen Potts (Lake Jackson, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dead Man's Island (Mass Market Paperback)

Wealthy, arrogant Chase Prescott invites his long-ago colleague Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins to come to his private island to try to determine who is trying to murder him. He tells her that an attempt has been made on his life and that he is determined to find the culprit. He invites anyone whom he feels had the motive and opportunity to Dead Man's Island (renamed Prescott Island by the egotistic Chase.) Henry O accepts his invitation and joins the others for a few days on the isolated, mysterious island off the coast of South Carolina. The problem she encounters is that everyone present does have a motive and that makes it difficult for her to find the culprit. The action becomes more exciting towards the end when a powerful hurricane threatens the island and murders begin to occur. The solution to the murder is a convoluted one which defies logic and which makes me wonder why Chase invited Henry O in the first place. The book is very readable, however, and gives the reader many pages of real suspense.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for Hart fans, April 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dead Man's Island-Large Print (Hardcover)

I have been a fan of Ms. Hart's "Death on Demand" series, and was not looking forward to a new series and new protagonist. Boy was I pleasantly surprised! It is hard to convince a loyal reader to open up to a new character and setting, but Carolyn is able to do that. Where Annie Laurence is young and brash, Henrie O is older and savvier. This mystery is sharper, more serious, and suspenseful than most of the "Death on Demand" series. If Carolyn can find renewal by writing for two series, more power to her. She is obviously a very talented writer, and I am waiting happily for the next Henrie O AND Annie Laurence mysteries.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best mystery I've read so far, January 4, 2010

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Elisabeth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dead Man's Island (Mass Market Paperback)

I'm usually very good at guessing "whodunit", so I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't guess who the killer in this mystery was. I correctly guessed who blew up the boat and sort of guessed who the killer was, but the ending just floored me. I even lent this book to my aunt, who's also good at solving mysteries, and even she guessed incorrectly.

I've read other Carolyn Hart books (she's the best mystery writer I've read so far) and this book is, so far, the best from her collection....and also, incidentally the best mystery I've so far, too.