The dead man is identified as Cameron Tully, a seafood distributor, who was poisoned by the locally ubiquitous sago pine. One of her friends is an accomplished seamstress who goes all out making gorgeous costumes that will beat an obnoxious lady who looks down on mutts.
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Harriet’s main concern is getting costumes made for the reluctant Streetman, whom she’s entered in a series of contests starting with Halloween and progressing through Thanksgiving, Christmas/Hannukah, and St. As usual, the overwhelmed local police ask Williams Investigations to help-er, consult. While Phee’s visiting Harriet one day, Streetman dashes over to the neighbors’ barbecue grill and unearths a dead body under a tarp. As it is, Harriet lives near her daughter in Sun City West and has a wide circle of zany friends who’ve helped Phee solve several mysteries ( Molded 4 Murder, 2019, etc.) while she’s been working for Williams Investigations along with her boyfriend, Marshall, a former police officer. Sophie "Phee" Kimball might lead a dull life if it weren’t for her mother, Harriet Plunkett, and Harriet’s neurotic Chiweenie, Streetman. The parts with Nero Wolfe, the only character Goldsborough brings to life, are almost worth waiting for.Īn Arizona accountant with a penchant for solving murders lands a fishy case. Notices a telltale clue, prepares dinner for everyone, sleeps on his discovery,Īnd arranges a meeting of all parties in Marjorie’s living room in which he Nero Wolfe ( Death of an Art Collector, 2019, etc.), and fans willīreathe a sigh of relief when he appears at Marjorie’s door, debriefs Archie, Raised questions about the alleged suicide, is perfectly willing to publish a floridlyĪctionable summary of the leading suspects that delights her editor, shocksĪrchie, and infuriates everyone else. Verna Kay Padgett, whose apartment window was shot out the night her column
Nor is Archie limited to mulling over his relatives’ gossip, for Trumpet reporter Granddaughter, might have had an eye on her great-uncle’s substantial estate. That he could romance her nurse, Carrie Yeager. Newman is convinced that Mulgrew murdered his ailing wife, Lester’s sister, so Rival banker Charles Purcell out of business, forcing Purcell to get work as anĪuto mechanic, and foreclosed on dairy farmer Harold Mapes’ spread. But Archie’s mother, Marjorie Goodwin, andĪunt Edna know lots of people with reason to have killed him. Tom Blankenship, the local police chief, thinks there’s no case In Archie Goodwin's 15th adventure since the death of his creator, Rex Stout, his gossipy Aunt Edna Wainwright lures him from 34th Street to his carefully unnamed hometown in Ohio to investigate the death of a well-hated bank president. Readers who think of Sweden as snow-white are in for a surprise. But how long will it take his plunge into ethnic hatred to give him the answers he needs? Though "the last thing Kurt Wallander felt like was a laughing policeman," fans of Maj Sjîwall and Per Wahlîî will feel right at home in this first (1991) of Mankell's five Wallander novels, right down to the laconic paragraphing. Surprised by the news that Johannes Lîvgren was not exactly the colorless chap he appeared, Wallander despairs of finding enough time or energy to kindle a romance with deputy D.A. Or else we'll take over") from somebody who's willing to set fire to a refugee camp barracks and gun down a visiting Somali to show how serious he is. Who would so savagely kill an elderly farming couple in the Swedish town of Lenarp-the husband gruesomely tortured, the wife slowly strangled with a noose tied in an unusual knot-and then step out to the couple's barn to feed their horse? Inspector Kurt Wallander, battling midlife crisis-his estranged daughter has rarely called him since she lit out from home his estranged wife greets him by telling him how much weight he's put on-would love to have the leisure to speculate about the identity of the killers, described only by the dying Maria Lîvgren as "foreign." As acting chief of the Ystad police, though, he's got more urgent business on his hands: a series of xenophobic phone calls ("You now have three days to make up for shielding foreign criminals.
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