Liffey Rivers and the Mystery of the Sparkling Solo Dress Crown (Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries) - Softcover

Briggs, Brenna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1419607057 ISBN 13: 9781419607059

Publisher: BookSurge Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

13-year-old Liffey Rivers is power-walking around the hotel lobby at the Celtic Arch Feis in St. Louis when she notices a suspicious looking man carrying a beautiful Irish dancer doll in his plastic shopping bag. An over-sized sparkling diamond tiara is perched on top of the doll's curly brown wig--but Liffey can see that the doll is wearing a traditional Irish dance school dress. Intuitively, she realizes that whoever put this dress on the doll, did NOT place the diamond crown on its head. When Liffey cannot resist investigating further, she finds herself not only trying to win a 1st place medal to qualify for her first Irish dance solo dress, but also dodging international smugglers. After a series of suspenseful cat and mouse chases, Liffey Rivers unravels the mystery of the sparkling solo dress crown.

About this title

About the Author

Brenna Briggs is the author of eight Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries and MAIDS: Mothers Addicted To Irish Dancing. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, into a third generation Irish American family, she thought that eating green-dyed bakery bread and sugar cookies with bright green icing on Saint Patrick's Day were the best things about being Irish. Briggs' essays and short stories have been featured in Hornpipe Magazine, The Irish American Post, Celtic Canada, The Sligo Quarterly Review, Irish Dancing and Culture Magazine and many other Irish American periodicals and newspapers. After returning in 2009 from a six year stay in County Sligo where she wrote the first three Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer mysteries, she lives in the "Driftless Area" of Wisconsin near the Mississippi River. Her books and magazine short stories and essays are part of the Dublin archives for traditional Irish music and dance (Taisce Cheol Duchais Eirreann) on Merrion Square. Brenna studied theatre and history at St. Mary's College-Notre Dame.

From the Back Cover

There is more excitement at this feis than Liffey Rivers could have ever imagined!

Will she finally win a 1st place in her soft shoe jig (her best dance step) and get her very own solo dress at last?

Or will she again get a "good, but not good enough" 2nd or 3rd place?

And who is that man Liffey sees standing by the elevators with the streak of white hair running down the back of his head (like a skunk) and what is he up to?

Liffey has seen him before. He is carrying a shopping bag with a beautiful curly-haired Irish dancer doll peeking out. Liffey can see that the doll is wearing a dazzling diamond solo dress crown...but something is wrong...."

Edition details

• Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1419607057
• ISBN 13: 9781419607059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146