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Summary: "When a talk by successful author Burton St Clair at Fethering Library ends in sudden, violent death, Jude finds herself the prime suspect in the ensuing murder investigation. She must enlist the help of her neighbour Carole not just to solve the crime, but to prove she didn't commit it"--Publisher's description.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2017
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Summary: For Mrs. Pargeter, it is a matter of principle that she should complete any of her late husband's unfinished business. Amongst the many bequests he made to her, perhaps the most valuable is his little black book, in which he listed all the people who ever worked for him, with details of their particular skill sets. This means that whenever Mrs. P has a crime to solve she can readily contact...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Créme de la Crime 2015
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Summary: While holidaying at a Turkish villa, Carole and Jude investigate a series of menacing events plaguing their host, a ruthless property developer, which come to a head when a body turns up in an ancient Lycian tomb.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014
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Summary: Going to Connie's Clip Joint for a haircut, Carole Seddon doesn't expect to find herself at the scene of a murder, but in the back room, strangled by the cord of a hairdryer, sits Connie's young assistant Kyra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 1993
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Summary: A murder provides series heroine Carole Seddon a welcome distraction from Christmas. A few days after Carole and best friend Jude do some shopping at Gallimaufry, the store burns down. In the ruins firemen discover a woman's charred body. The police later learn that a single bullet, not fire, killed the victim, Polly Le Bonnier, the attractive stepdaughter of Gallimaufry's owner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Five Star 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Summary: An engagement party for Carole Seldon's son takes a strange turn when the reclusive father of the bride mysteriously vanishes during the party, only to be found brutally murdered the following morning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2005
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Summary: Landing a minor role in a theater production, Charles Paris is assigned to help the show's famous American star navigate cultural differences in England, an effort that tangles him up in the actor's complicated relationships and a wrongful murder charge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1990
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Summary: It's that glorious period between the two world wars, and the exiled king of Mitteleuropa is visiting the ancestral home of the Duke of Tawcester. When the ex-king's daughter is kidnapped, noblesse obliges the Duke's handsome, brave, and rather stupid son (known to all as Blotto) to drive off to the rescue. Luckily, he's aided by his brilliant sister, Twinks. Plus, he's got a really swell car.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony & Mayhem Press 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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Summary: "Murder at the BBC? Its almost unimaginable. When Andrea Gower, the beautiful studio manager is murdered, the producers only concern is the dead air emanating from the transmitter. But Charles Paris, the now famous actor/detective has come to Broadcasting House to give a talk, and ends up as a mystery voice on a showbiz quiz show. Paris has to wallow through layers of BBC scandal, and uncovers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1980
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Summary: Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. And it turns out to be a lively affair, culminating in several embarrassing confrontations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creme de la Crime 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike 2003
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1984
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Prime Crime 2002
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Summary: "It is her characteristic generosity rather than her love of animals that finds Mrs Pargeter supporting her friend, Jasmine Angold, at a charity reception for PhiliPussies, whose worthy aim is to rehabilitate stray cats from the Greek island of Atmos into caring English homes. But the evening is to have unexpected consequences. At the event, Mrs P is taken aback to meet a woman who claims to be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: The genteel game of real tennis takes a murderous twist when a friend of Jude's new boyfriend winds up dead on the court, while Carole Seddon pursues her own investigation into the identity of the human remains known locally as the "Lady in the Lake."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2012
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Summary: Simon Brett takes up behind the scenes in a backstage drama of crime and detection.
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Publisher / Publication Date: toExcel 1983
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Summary: When an outbreak of food poisoning temporarily shuts down the Crown and Anchor pub, followed by the murder of one of the pub's employees, Carole Seddon and her friend Jude investigate who is behind the trouble before the pub is forced out of business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2010
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Summary: Jude's decision to redecorate her cottage leads to a meeting with a local decorator and a surprising discovery behind a wall panel in a Victorian building: a woman's handbag! The discovery becomes serious when the police identify the handbag's owner as Anita Garner, a young woman who vanished in suspicious circumstances twenty years earlier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Summary: After she lands a starring role in the local production of George Bernard Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple," Jude's role becomes that of investigator when one of the lead actors is found hanging from the especially-constructed stage gallows during rehearsals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crème de la Crime 2014