The Pea Soup Poisonings [Paperback]

Nancy Means Wright (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 16, 2010

To get into her brother Kelby's Northern Spy Club, Zoe Elwood must walk a narrow beam over rusted farm machinery, and then solve a crime. Her chance comes when Alice's grandmother expires after eating a bowl of pea soup. Kelby gives Zoe just five days to track down the poisoner. Can she do it?

Editorial Reviews

Review

City kids will enjoy this excursion into one of Vermont's quirkier locales. -- Mystery Scene (magazine) --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From the Author

Inspired by Nancy Drew, I wrote my first novel at age ten about the kidnapping of a pesky older brother - but my mother threw it out. I now redeem myself with the Pea Soup Poisonings, based on the adventures of my own four children and on the pea soup my husband used to make in five gallon vats and serve in a reconstituted chamberpot! --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 132 pages
• Publisher: Hilliard & Harris (January 16, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591331625
• ISBN-13: 978-1591331629
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,394,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I'm the author of seventeen books of non fiction, fiction, and poetry; five contemporary mystery novels from St. Martin's Press, a novella, "Fire and Ice," in the Worldwide Library anthology, CRIMES OF PASSION, two children's mysteries, one of which won the Agatha Award for Best '06 Children's / YA Novel. A sequel, THE GREAT CIRCUS TRAIN ROBBERY followed in '08 and was an Agatha finalist. Now I've begun a mystery series based on the turbulent life of 18th-century feminist Mary Wollstonecraft: MIDNIGHT FIRES came out in 2010 from Perseverance Press in spring of 2010, followed by The Nighmare in 2011. Of course there are dozens of poems (including two chapbooks)and short stories in the literary mags--both mainstream (American Literary Review,et al.) and mystery (Level Best Books and Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine). "The Outpost" and "Religious Wars" are now on Amazon Shorts. Vermont is my primary writing landscape! I love its mountains, valleys, autumn leaves, winter snows--even mud season, which inspired my first mystery. I live with my life partner, aerospace engineer Llyn Rice, and two huge demanding Maine Coon cats. Seven grandkids, all in Vermont, complete the scene. Please visit my website, www.nancymeanswright.com and say hello!