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Dorothy Cannell Goodbye, Ms. Chips: An Ellie Haskell Mystery (Ellie Haskell Mysteries)
Minotaur Books 2009 0312943741 / 9780312943745 MM Very Good
0312943741 0312943741 From Publishers Weekly At the start of Cannell's meandering 13th Ellie Haskell mystery (after 2007's Withering Heights), Ellie's dear friend Dorcas Critchley, the games mistress at St. Roberta's boarding school, asks the amateur sleuth to investigate the theft of the Loverly Cup, a trophy awarded annually by Lady Loverly of the Hall at Upper Swan-Upping to the winner of the area schools' lacrosse championship match. A former inmate of St. Roberta's, Ellie returns to campus, where she's forced to rub shoulders with old classmates she would rather avoid. The suspicious death of Marilyn Chips, a retired coach whose skills enabled the school to retain the trophy for many years, makes the loss of the Loverly Cup, if not irrelevant, certainly less important. Ellie and her housekeeper, Mrs. Malloy, enchant as always, though the student characters, in particular Ellie's precocious detecting pal, 14-year-old Ariel Hopkins, may strike some readers as too adult. Witty dialogue helps offset the slow pacing of this alternately funny and stodgy cozy. (Apr.) Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Booklist In her twelfth adventure, Ellie Haskell leaves her family at Merlin's Court to travel to her old boarding school, St. Roberta's, at the request of her former headmistress, Mrs. Battle. Someone has stolen the Loverly Cup from St. Roberta's trophy case. The cup is awarded to the winner of the lacrosse championship match, and for the first time in nine years, St. Roberta's has lost the cup and needs to pass it along to the winning school. Ellie returns to St. Roberta's, without her trusty housekeeper and sleuthing partner, Mrs. Malloy, on the pretext of needing some rest. She investigates staff, students, and some former graduates of the school while trying to come to terms with her guilt over her past failure to speak for a fellow student who was wrongly expelled. During the investigation, a beloved teacher, Ms. Chips, dies. Is it an accident, or is it murder? This humorous cozy is filled with sympathetic characters and an inside look at an English boarding school. --Sue O'Brien --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Dorothy Cannell The Widow's Club
Bantam 1989 0553277944 / 9780553277944 MM Very Good
0553277944 0553277944 From Publishers Weekly Ellie Simons has a great deal on her mind: her pending marriage to handsome Bentley Haskell; the opening of his restaurant in the charming English town of Chitterton Fells; the restoration of the castle Merlin's Court, where she and Ben live. Most compelling of all, Ellie must learn to feel comfortable with her newly thin body, celebrated in the first Cannell mystery, The Thin Woman. But from the bacchanalian wedding reception on, she runs into trouble. She and Ben seem to drift apart. His parents, preparing for divorce, arrive separately to live at Merlin's Court. And in her heart of hearts, Ellie is convinced she is still a fat person. Into her already chaotic life come Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, proprietors of Flowers Detection Agency, to enlist her help in an investigation. Chitterton Fells has been marked by a recent rash of murders, the victims all unfaithful husbands. The Tramwells suspect the the existence of a Widows' Club, whose services include emotional support, various social activities and, possibly, murder. Ellie joins the effort to ferret out "the Founder," who could be any of a number of prominent citizens from the notorious Dr. Simon Bordeaux to Edward Digby, writer of murder mysteries. The humor is broad and delivery fastindeed franticand while the resolution may seem far-fetched, Ellie, for all her scatterbrained foolishness, remains a heroine with gumption and grace. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Product Description Stylish, amusing, and deliciously wicked, the Misses Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell are hired to investigate a woman's organization whose members choose widowhood over divorce. With the help of a newlywed friend, the spinster sleuths stalk the mastermind of matrimonial murder. HC: Bantam.
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