Book Review: Dorothy Sayers’ Unnatural Death
There is a question as to whether Agatha Dawson’s death was natural or murder, and Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued to see if he can discover the truth. Purely as an intellectual exercise, y’know.
There is a question as to whether Agatha Dawson’s death was natural or murder, and Lord Peter Wimsey is intrigued to see if he can discover the truth. Purely as an intellectual exercise, y’know.
Wallowing in the luxuries of civilization, Lord Peter Wimsey is suddenly thrust back into reality when he sees the headlines in the English papers — Gerald, his brother, has been charged with murder.
A fan convention that’s the ultimate in weird. There’s a batch of escaped parrots and monkeys frolicking throughout the hotel, a minefield of egos lurking behind the show’s success, and a dead body. Meg goes into action, crossing swords with a deviously obsessed murderer.
Aurora Teagarden is excited about her upcoming wedding, her early wedding gift . . . and the opportunity to solve the disappearance of the Juliuses.
There are mysterious doings at Mutant Wizards, Rob’s gaming company, and he asks Meg to come work for him — organize his company and its move and find out what’s going on. It’ll be a wild ride with crazy programmers and a variety of critters.
Yorktown is celebrating its annual reenactment of the British surrender along with a colonial craft fair. Only this isn’t the only warfare with scam artists, blackmailers, and a murderer abroad whom Meg Langslow vows to uncover.
A getaway attempt from a family of zany characters and disastrous events fails when Meg and Michael are marooned by a hurricane and discover family at the empty cottage. And then . . . there’s murder, and Meg’s dad is the chief suspect.
It’s three weddings and a murder that introduces blacksmith Meg Langslow and her whacky family. It’s only the “gay” and gorgeous Michael who keeps Meg sane.
Santa’s Workshop in Nocturne Falls is short-staffed, so Jayne Frost and Sinclair Crowe detour to the town where someone is breaking in to people’s houses. Worried that this will ruin Christmas, Jayne decides to do everything in her power to put an end to the problem.
A royal road trip takes the Princess and Prince Consort of the North Pole all the way to Las Vegas where trouble finds them. Now Sinclair’s entire family is gambling on him and Jayne figuring out what’s gone dangerously wrong with the cool new magic trick at the end of his parents’ show.