Saks & Violins: A Bed-and-breakfast Mystery - Hardcover

Daheim, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 078629096X ISBN 13: 9780786290963

Publisher: Thorndike Pr, 2006

Synopsis

When world-famous musician Dolph Kluger drops dead of rhubarb poisoning during a reception at the Hillside Manor B&B, proprietor Judith McMonigle Flynn launches her own investigation to uncover a killer.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Richardson Daheim is a Seattle native with a communications degree from the University of Washington. Realizing at an early age that getting published in books with real covers might elude her for years, she worked on daily newspapers and in public relations to help avoid her creditors. She lives in her hometown in a century­old house not unlike Hillside Manor, except for the body count. Daheim is also the author of the Alpine mystery series and the mother of three daughters and grandmother of two granddaughters, all of whom live within shrieking distance.

From Publishers Weekly:

Murder visits Seattle's Hillside Manor B&B yet again in the busy 22nd entry in Daheim's popular cozy series (after 2005's Dead Man Docking). Judith McMonigle Flynn and her neighbors are exasperated with the noise violinist Rudi Wittener makes at all hours, but Judith thaws slightly when Rudi wants her to host a party for his visiting mentor, Dolph Kluger. When Kluger's poisoned to death while a guest at Hillside, suspects include Rudi; Rudi's son, Fritz; Rudi's ex-wife, Elsa; and a man claiming to be Kluger's illegitimate son. As if murder weren't enough, cousin Renie's credit cards disappear, as does Rudi's violin bow, valued at $350,000. With a plot crowded with characters new and old, numerous questions of paternity and frequent humorous references to the homicide rate at Hillside Manor, this will no doubt please longtime fans, but new readers may be more irritated than amused. (Aug.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Pr
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 078629096X
• ISBN 13: 9780786290963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 495