Though they'd rather be boiled in oil, Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cantankerous cousin Renie have agreed to cater a seventy-fifth birthday bash for their batty old Uncle Boo Major, the billionaire breakfast mush magnate. Luckily their culinary obligations keep them busy in the kitchen of the sprawling Major manor and away from most of their contemptible kin -- until the septuagenarian birthday boy is discovered deceased behind his locked den door. Someone slew Uncle Boo...but who? A plethora of last wills popping up all over the place makes virtually everybody a suspect -- Judith and Renie included. And that's forcing the cousins out on a limb, where they must attempt to pick the true culprit from among the many nuts on their twisted family tree.
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"Judith and Renie are sleuths to treasure...Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a
big heart. I love her books." -- Carolyn Hart
About the Author
Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a degree in communications from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century-old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series and the mother of three daughters.
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Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cousin Renie have reluctantly agreed to cater their Uncle Boo's 75th. birthday party. They show up and are treated like servants instead of the relatives that they are. When the birthday celebration is over, the guest of honor disappears into his study and is later found shot to death. Judith's colorful relatives offer no end of possibilities as far as suspects go, and she, as usual, decides to do her own investigating. Her policeman husband Joe's chief rival is assigned to the case, which makes Judith even more determined to find out who the killer is. This is one of the best-written of the Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery series and is a very enjoyable read.
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Mystery on Seattle's Queen Anne & Magnolia Hills!,
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This is one book in a series of bed-and-breakfast mysteries set in Seattle, Washington. Anyone familiar with the city can tell that the author, Mary Daheim, has changed the place names, but retained the feel of the city in accurate descriptions. Heraldsgate Hill is really Queen Anne Hill. Norway General Hospital is really Swedish Hospital. Papaya Pete's restaurant is really Trader Vics. Donner and Blitzen department store is really the now defunct Frederick and Nelsons. Nordquist is Nordstroms. The Belle Epoch is The Bon Marche, now known just as The Bon. Moonbeams coffee house is really Starbucks, and so on. The descriptions are so accurately and fondly drawn that the reader experiences a warm sense of being there, especially if one has actually lived in Seattle at one time. The relationships of the characters are sometimes feisty but honest and often very funny. I recommend this whole series.
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mary daheim's bed and breakfast mysteries are one of my favorite vices! they are all funny and fun to read, well-written and her characters are great! especially renie and gertrude! plots are fast moving and twists are frequently so unexpected that i back up to figure out how i got here from there! this one was expecially good!
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JUDITH GROVER MCMONIGLE Flynn tipped her head to one side, picked up a black marking pen, and drew antlers on the formal portrait of Aunt Toadie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
loden coat, arched her eyebrows, entry hall, terminal box, creamed chicken Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Boo, Aunt Toadie, Buck Doerflinger, Major Manor, Mason Meade, Aunt Vivvie, Aunt Rosie, Weed Wakefield, The Bluff, Boo Major, Hillside Manor, Dunlop Major, Derek Rush, Major Mush, Officer Foster, Joe Flynn, Officer Rigby, Grandma Grover, Rube Major, Heraldsgate Hill, Corinne Dooley, Githa Lagerquist, Reuben Major, Vivvie Rush, Ruth Major New!
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JUDITH GROVER MCMONIGLE Flynn tipped her head to one side, picked up a black marking pen, and drew antlers on the formal portrait of Aunt Toadie. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
loden coat, arched her eyebrows, entry hall, terminal box, creamed chicken Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Uncle Boo, Aunt Toadie, Buck Doerflinger, Major Manor, Mason Meade, Aunt Vivvie, Aunt Rosie, Weed Wakefield, The Bluff, Boo Major, Hillside Manor, Dunlop Major, Derek Rush, Major Mush, Officer Foster, Joe Flynn, Officer Rigby, Grandma Grover, Rube Major, Heraldsgate Hill, Corinne Dooley, Githa Lagerquist, Reuben Major, Vivvie Rush, Ruth Major New!
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- The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare on page 222
- The Merchant of Venice (Saddleback Classics) by Emily Hutchinson on page 222
- The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare on page 222
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