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From Library Journal The creator of the Mrs. Pollifax mysteries introduces a new protagonist-a struggling young novelist whose father asks him to investigate the family property left when Aunt Harriet died. There he finds a bunch of squatters and gets drawn into a mystery.
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At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment--to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale's death years ago. But far from being deserted, Thale's Folly, as Andrew discovers, is fully inhabited--by a quartet of charming squatters, former "guests" of kindhearted Harriet. There is elegant Miss L'Hommedieu, Gussie the witch, Leo the bibliophile, and beautiful Tarragon, who is unlike any girl Andrew has ever met in Manhattan.
Andrew is entranced by these unworldly creatures and their simple life. Yet all is not well in Thale's Folly. A thief breaks into the farmhouse, an old friend of the "family" disappears, and Andrew and Tarragon are drawn into mysteries they cannot fathom. . . .
From the Back Cover
"Ms. Gilman has a nice, relaxed style and an easygoing way of telling a story."
--The New York Times Book Review
"Mrs. Pollifax gives Agatha Christie's Miss Marple a rival to reckon with."
--Toronto Star
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- PublisherBallantine Books
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0449003647
- ISBN 13 9780449003640
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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