Trouble with Harriet [Import] [Unbound]

Dorothy Cannell (Author)

Product Details

• Unbound
• Publisher: Penguin Books (June 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0786509287
• ISBN-13: 978-0786509287
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's nice to be back with Ellie and Bentley, June 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Trouble with Harriet (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 9) (Hardcover)

I quite enjoyed The Trouble With Harriet.

Dorothy Cannell has given us some new characters with very unique personalities. Some are good and some so annoying you wish Ellie would box their ears. And happily there are the ones we have come to know and love like Mrs. Malloy (still in her black taffeta and heels) and Freddy.

I did not give the book five stars because I felt the pace of the first half of the book was a bit slow. At page 156 I thought "now we're getting interesting"

However, as a tried and true Dorothy Cannell fan I was not disappointed. It is a fun book to read, Ellie is her charming and lovable self, and as always, Ben is a picture perfect husband.

This book also marks the return of kleptomaniac Aunt LuLu which adds even more English humor to the already amusing book.

I would have enjoyed a faster pace but all in all it was an enjoyable read.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Acceptable,, but not memorable., June 23, 2000

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Barbara O'Neill - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trouble with Harriet (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 9) (Hardcover)

Readers of Dorothy Cannell's "The Trouble with Harriet" may be disappointed. After such wonderful stories like "The Thin Woman" and "How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams," "The Trouble With Harriet" drags with little humor and passages more suited to dramatic soliloquies. More time was spent on Ellie's father's bouts of depression and ill-humor than I thought was necessary and the premise of the mystery itself was a bit bland.

I'd really like it if one of these books were to take Ellie and Ben away from Chittendon Falls on a holiday and then shove them headlong into a mystery....but please! Let's get these two together without the kiddies and Freddie lurking about. Frankly, I'd love to read more of Ben.

Although the book was acceptable, I found myself skimming and skipping, a sure sign of boredom with a story.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves, August 6, 2002

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TundraVision (o/~ from the Land of Sky Blue Waters o/~) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Trouble with Harriet (Ellie Haskell Mysteries) (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a fine little British cozy with some escapades in Germany on the side. I was drawn in by the title. I had never read this author or series before, and was pleasantly surprised and entertained. Ellie Haskell (sometime interior decorator, full time Mom, daughter of the prodigal Morley) and her husband Bentley (chef and restaurateur) are confronted and confounded with the remains of the mysterious Harriet. Or are they? This domestic duo reminds me somewhat of a Goldie's Colorado Catering (the series by Diane Mott Davidson) Goes Across "the Pond." But the Haskells are more witty and their children far better behaved.

It is a fun frolic with some Saints, sinners, relics and characters endearing and quirky.