Grandmotherly sleuth Margaret Barlow returns to the hallowed halls of her alma mater to solve the mystery of a young girl found hanged in the bell tower. 10,000 first printing.
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Following her introduction in Murder on Martha's Vineyard, photojournalist Margaret Barlow, whose hobby is hang-gliding, is summoned to her granddaughter Nancy's private girls' school, her own alma mater, in this cozy mystery. A freshman scholarship student at Brides Hall has died mysteriously, apparently having hanged herself on a chapel bell rope. Most of the student body believes it was suicide, but Maryland homicide Lt. Michael Dominic suspects murder, and asks Margaret to find out what the students and the administrators, many of whom are Margaret's old schoolmates, aren't telling the police. Parents' weekend, with an operetta and annual boat race, hampers the police investigation but aids Margaret's investigative efforts. Only the graphic description of an additional, particularly gruesome murder mars the gentility of this satisfying tale featuring Osborn's intrepid middle-aged sleuth.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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New York-based freelance photojournalist Margaret Barlow--50ish, but athletic and younger-looking--drives to Bride's Hall, a girls' school in Maryland, to comfort her granddaughter after a murder there. Herself an alumna with access to insiders, Margaret stays on to assist the investigation at the request of 40ish, disturbingly handsome Lieutenant Dominic. Despite threats, evidence of embezzlement, and further murder, she persists until uncovering the killer. Osborn ( Murder on Martha's Vineyard , Lynx Bks., 1989) crafts a lightweight, but for the most part smoothly written and lively puzzler.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Don't Bother,
By MPMP "mpmp1949" (Santa Fe, NM) - See all my reviews
This review is from: MURDER ON THE CHESAPEAKE: A MARGARET BARLOW MYSTERY (Hardcover)
Boring, inane plot with a "heroine" who is so self-centered and shallow you wonder why you are bothering to read another word about her. Try Perri O'Shaughnessy's books instead.
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Love David Osborn books, I have only found 3. which were all good. Read, Murder on Marthas Vinyard, Murder on Chesapeak and Murder in the Napa Valley. Are there any more???
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AT 6:54 P.M. on the tenth of May, fourteen-year-old Mary Hughes, a scholarship student at Brides Hall, an exclusive girls' boarding school at Burnham on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, had only seven minutes before her life was, with premeditation, brutally extinguished by someone she trusted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brides Hall, Mary Hughes, Sissy Brown, Dead Monkey, The Maryland Queen, Ellen Mornay, Smoke House, New York, Chesapeake Bay, Michael Dominic, Gertrude Abrams, Officer Burke, Gale Saunders, Onslow Weekes, Constance Burgess, Burnham Creek, Hiram Burgess, Little Choptank, Angela O'Connell, Sam Houston, Head Girl, John Ratygen, Lieutenant Dominic, Miss Mornay, Connie Burgess New!
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AT 6:54 P.M. on the tenth of May, fourteen-year-old Mary Hughes, a scholarship student at Brides Hall, an exclusive girls' boarding school at Burnham on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, had only seven minutes before her life was, with premeditation, brutally extinguished by someone she trusted. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Brides Hall, Mary Hughes, Sissy Brown, Dead Monkey, The Maryland Queen, Ellen Mornay, Smoke House, New York, Chesapeake Bay, Michael Dominic, Gertrude Abrams, Officer Burke, Gale Saunders, Onslow Weekes, Constance Burgess, Burnham Creek, Hiram Burgess, Little Choptank, Angela O'Connell, Sam Houston, Head Girl, John Ratygen, Lieutenant Dominic, Miss Mornay, Connie Burgess New!
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- It Had to Be by Mary E. Hall on page 82
- The Last Pope by Osborn in Front Matter
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