Author: Joan Hess Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Fiction, Humor
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ISBNs: 9780312384623 0312384629 |
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Leave it to Claire Malloy, owner of the Book Depot in Farberville, to start out having tea with retired schoolteacher Miss Emily Parchester and end up investigating a murder. An avant-garde artist who moved into a house on Willow Street has the whole neighborhood up in arms. His "interactive art, " complete with a nearly nude model and a coffin in the front yard, is attracting a mob of noisy gawkers. Irate residents are worried about declining property values. The local mystery writer cannot meet her deadlines with the constant clatter. And when the artist's estranged wife rolls up in a limo and announces to one and all that she intends to have him committed to a mental institution, all of Farberville is in a dither. But before the night is out, even stranger things happen: the volatile artist's house goes up in smoke, a dead body is found inside the coffin, the artist is promptly arrested for murder...and Claire Malloy, devoted amateur sleuth that she is, starts snooping where she doesn't belong.
This book is part of the "Claire Malloy" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Mummy Dearest" First published in 2008 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Damsels in Distress" First published in 2007 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Goodbye Body" First published in 2005 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Out on a Limb" First published in 2002 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Tickled to Death" First published in 1994 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Poisoned Pins" First published in 1993 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Diet to Die For" First published in 1989 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "A Really Cute Corpse" First published in 1988 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Dear Miss Demeanor" First published in 1987 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Strangled Prose" First published in 1985 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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