Humorous Mysteries
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| Mysteries with quirky characters and plenty of humor make the gray days of February more endurable. These titles represent the beginnings of each series. | |
 | Title: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death Author: "Beaton, M.C." Summary: Mrs. Agatha Raisin retires to a picturesque village in the English Cotswolds and immediately gets into trouble when her quiche is entered into a local competition and the judge dies from her poisonous pie. |
 | Title: The Thin Woman: an Epicurean Mystery Author: "Cannell, Dorothy" Summary: Interior designer Ellie Simon hires an escort for a dreaded family reunion and the two find themselves paired up to find a treasure left by Uncle Merlin. Ellie and Ben continue in the series as husband and wife. |
 | Title: Anything Goes: a Grace and Favor Mystery Author: "Churchill, Jill" Summary: "Siblings Lily and Robert Brewster face financial disaster after the 1929 stock market crash and reluctantly take over their Uncle Horatio’s mansion in the Hudson River Valley and turn it into a Bed and Breakfast. Unfortunately, some of their guests don’t live long enough to pay their bills. " |
 | Title: One for the Money Author: "Evanovich, Janet" Summary: "Stephanie Plum, desperate for a job, becomes a bounty hunter in New Jersey, bringing in people who have jumped bail, for commissions. Although totally incompetent she manages to get the bad guys despite her screwball mishaps. " |
 | Title: The Unexpected Mrs.Pollifax Author: "Gilman, Dorothy" Summary: "Tired of her club meetings, Mrs. Pollifax decides to become a secret agent and is sent to Mexico by the CIA where she is unfortunately picked up by the Chinese Communists. " |
 | Title: Death on Demand Author: "Hart, Carolyn G" Summary: "Annie Laurance Darling, the owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore in Broward’s Rock Island, South Carolina, finds herself to be a prime murder suspect and uses her detective skills to clear her name." |
 | Title: Strangled Prose Author: "Hess, Joan" Summary: Claire Malloy runs a college-town bookstore in rural Arkansas but she manages to get involved in a series of murders while becoming more attracted to Lieutenant Peter Rosen of the local police. |
 | Title: The Spellman Files: a novel Author: "Lutz, Lisa" Summary: Izzy Spellman works for her parents’ San Francisco PI firm but her attempts at sleuthing and acquiring boyfriends are often sabotaged by her snooping family. |
 | Title: Bubbles Unbound Author: "Strohmeyer, Sarah" Summary: "Bubbles Yablonsky works as a beautician and budding journalist in a Pennsylvania steel town, supporting a teenage daughter, but investigating murders is her opportunity to get ahead in the world. Madcap adventures naturally follow." |
 | Title: Shop Till You Drop: a Dead-End Job Mystery Author: "Viets, Elaine" Summary: "Helen Hawthorne is on the run from the law after refusing to pay her deadbeat, unfaithful ex-husband alimony. She accepts dead end jobs for cash to prevent a paper trail. Her job as a salesclerk at an elite clothing boutique in Fort Lauderdale leads to danger when she discovers that her employer has been embezzling money and dealing drugs." |
