He has promised to return the ashes to her relatives. Until the arrival of Ellie’s long lost father, Morley Simons, toting the ashes of his platinum blond lady love, Harriet a femme fatale who has become a highway fatality. Their bags are all packed for a trip to France… After her hard domestic labor in The Spring Cleaning Murders pronounced ‘wickedly witty’ by the Chicago Sun Times all Ellie Haskell wants is a romantic getaway with her dashing husband, Bentley. ‘If there’s anybody funnier than Dorothy Cannell, I don’t want to meet her until my sides stop aching.’ Nancy Pickardĭorothy Cannell is back, in a masterpiece of hilarity with a nod to Alfred Hitchcock’s comic film that embroils sleuth Ellie Haskell with a prodigal father, a lost cause saint, a litany of secrets, and, of course, a murder. Malloy, The Spring Cleaning Murders is Cannell at her best. With Ellie and a madcap cast that includes her handsome husband Bentley, her feckless cousin Freddy, and caustic home helper Mrs. But when yet another member of the Chitteron Fells Charwomen’s Association bites the dust, Ellie swaps scrubbing for sleuthing to find out who has more than dust bunnies and dirty dishes to hide. Spring cleaning fever has Ellie nearly scrubbing the Merlin’s Court chandeliers with a toothbrush. Now she brings us her inimitable Ellie Haskell hero*ine of the weight loss wars and busy mother of twins in a mystery that fizzes with deadly wit.
For thirteen years, Dorothy Cannell, the award winning author of The Thin Woman and The Widows’ Club, has enchanted readers who relish Nancy Atherton, Carolyn Hart, and Diane Mott Davidson. A brand new Ellie Haskell mystery from the doyenne of malice domestic ‘wickedly witty…
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