High Seas Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery [Hardcover]

Shelley Freydont (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Lindy Graham-Haggerty, a rehearsal director and erstwhile sleuth (Backstage Murder), leads her troupe, the Jeremy Ash Dance Company, on a 10-day Caribbean luxury cruise in this amusing cozy with a lush dance and opera background. Others aboard the Maestro include several Met singers, Suzette Howard's ABT stars, cabaret crooner Danny Ross and Times music critic Enoch Grayson, whom all the performers detest for his merciless critiques and vicious scandal-mongering. The cruise should be an arts lover's dream, but Lindy soon has her hands full with the tiffs, rifts and romances inevitable among such artistic temperaments. Then events take a fatal turn. Suzette claims Danny fell dead at her feet, when he was in fact safe in bed. The next person to fall is GraysonAwho will write no more, thanks to a broken neck. The death of the unpopular critic is surely no accident. Later, Lindy witnesses the recovery of Danny's body from the pool. This time he's really dead. With only a few days before the end of the cruise, Lindy is determined to find the killer, who has to be someone on the Maestro, since the ship has made no port calls. Nearly every page reveals another romance gone sour or another long-cherished hatred, and Lindy knows all too well that love, jealousy, greed and revenge are the great recurring themes in the artsAand also the motives for murder. Her creator knows well how to produce an entertaining mystery in the classic tradition. (Aug.)
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From Library Journal

When Lindy Graham-Haggerty (Backstage Murder), rehearsal director for the Jeremy Ash Dance Company, reluctantly takes an exclusive, ten-day working cruise with company members, she encounters several quite unusual characters. One of them, a famous rock star, appears distant and drugged; another, a much-hated music critic from the Times, meets an unfortunate accident ; and a third, an obnoxious, drunken singer, falls victim to murder. Lindy knows too much for her own good but persists in sleuthing"with help from a few troupe members. A successful and entertaining murder at sea ; for all collections.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Kensington; F edition (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1575666278
• ISBN-13: 978-1575666273
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,671,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Shelley Freydont is the author of the Katie McDonald and Lindy Haggerty mystery series, and the upcoming Liv Montgomery, Celebration Bay Festival Mysteries (Berkeley Prime Crime). She has written several romance novels under the pseudonym Gemma Bruce. Her books have been translated into seven languages.

Her first women's fiction novel, Beach Colors, written as Shelley Noble, will be published by William Morrow June 2012.

A former professional dancer and choreographer, she most recently worked on the films, Mona Lisa Smile and The Game Plan. Shelley is a member of Sisters-in-Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Romance Writers of America, and Liberty States Fiction Writers.

For more about Shelley, please visit her website www.shelleyfreydont.com.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars High Drama, August 25, 2001

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algerina "algerina" (Saint Paul, MN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: High Seas Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery (Linda Haggerty Mysteries) (Paperback)

The theatrical setting and back stage drama are the things which drew me to this series. This, the second book in the Lindy Haggerty Mystery series, certainly does not disappoint. Ms Freydont's characters are three dimensional and colorfully drawn. Here she combines, classical dancers, opera singers, cabaret performers and a rock star to achieve a fascinating group of victims and suspects. The plot has many twists and turns. The cruise ship is surrounded by a school of red herring. She mixes information about the art form skillfully with murder and soap opera. I highly recommend this book to mystery and theater lovers alike.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars High Seas Murder, September 5, 2000

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tregatt (Portland, Oregon) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Seas Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery (Hardcover)

This is quite a good follow up mystery. The Jeremy Ashe Dance Company have agreed to do a working tour abroad a luxury cruise bound for the Carribean. High wheeling music producer, Cameron Tyler, has come with the concept of putting together the "cultured" rich with a few stars from the world of opera and dance. Always on the look out for more money, Jeremy Ashe has agreed to commit his dance company to the cruise. Rehersal director, Lindy Haggerty, is not looking forward to this working tour as her memory of cruise ships are not of the best. And it isn't too long before she's proved right. First a poisonous music critic literally drops down dead at her feet; then the lecherous cabaret singer drowns under suspicious circumstances. And no one seems to want to discover what's going on! But when an innocent ship steward is accussed of theft and looks likely to be fitted up for murder, Lindy and company spring into action to clear his name.

As an avid mystery reader, I found this novel entertaining but a little disconcerting. Much of the book seemed to deal with Lindy's strange attraction for the rock star, David Beck; and whether he had a drug habit or not. The strange behaviour of those around her were sidelined until the last quarter of the book when the investigation into the murders took flight.

Also her obsession with her weight (size eight and not a six) was a little tiring. I know that this is important to dancers but when it was mentioned over and over again... I felt like screaming. But I still enjoyed the mystery.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hijinks on the high seas!, October 25, 2000

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Marion A. Loughran (Charlotte NC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Seas Murder: A Lindy Haggerty Mystery (Hardcover)

Lindy Haggerty,the retired dancer just wants to have a diversion in her boring life as an empty nester. When she joins up with the Jeremy Ash troup again for a cruise gig, she becomes wrapped up in sleuthing about a few murders instead of dancing into paradise.

Shelley Fredont has done it again. The twists and turns of her characters behaviors have us wondering where we will end up next!

Sign me up for the next cruise with Lindy and her Gang!