How to Succeed in Murder - Hardcover

Margaret Dumas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709081987 ISBN 13: 9780709081982

Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Charley Fairfax -- heiress, theatrical producer, newlywed--is intent on living happily ever after with her tall, dark, and sarcastic husband Jack. The only mysteries before her are which play to choose for next season and how to decorate her dining room.

But when Jack is hired to investigate mysterious events at a local San Francisco software company where high-tech executives are brought low--actually, dead--Charley finds herself poised to do the unexpected. Charley has to get a job.

Okay, so maybe the job is a sham and Jack isn't exactly crazy about the plan that she and her band of irregulars from the repertory theater go undercover to find a killer, but Charley is determined to trade in her Prada for a laptop. She quickly finds herself wishing she'd had more than one crash course in corporate double-speak before her first day on the job. But faking it has always been Charley's strong suit.

Charley and Jack are starting to get the hang of this marriage thing. If only people would stop talking about babies, introducing them to decorators, and trying to kill them, they might even get to take a honeymoon.

 

About this title

About the Author:

Margaret Dumas holds a Master’s Degree in English Literature, which led her unsuspectingly into a career as a technical writer and computer software executive. Her first novel, Speak Now, was short-listed for the 2003 CWA Debut Dagger award.
Dumas lives in the Bay Area, where she splits her time between working on her next novel and searching for the perfect cocktail.

 

From Publishers Weekly:

A charming setting, not-so-serious tension and a cozy clique of appealing characters lift Dumas's second mystery starring heiress Charley Fairfax, who heads a nonprofit San Francisco theater company. Charley's plans for the honeymoon with husband Jack that was interrupted in her first outing, Speak Now (2004), get put on hold when distraught CEO Morgan Stokes seeks Jack's computer security expertise to reveal a corporate saboteur. Stokes's fiancé's late-night death in a health club steam room, deemed accidental at first indicates foul play as well. Charley and Jack enlist her theater pals and his computer geek partner to infiltrate the high-tech company as fake consultants. Properly costumed and coiffed, Charley rehearses corporate nonspeak and laments having to rise early like her working-stiff cohorts. Meanwhile, the motley group rehashes their findings almost nightly, while consuming a variety of tempting comestibles and plenty of creative cocktails. This fun romp covers it all—car chases, shootings, eccentric-uncles-turned-amateur-playwrights and end-of-the-world computer viruses. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0709081987
• ISBN 13: 9780709081982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224