The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn

✍ Scribed by Hess, Joan

• Book ID: 107569314
• Publisher: Minotaur Books
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 189 KB
• Series: Claire Malloy 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0312971788

✦ Synopsis

When you make a game of murder, be careful who the players are...

Who could resist the mock-murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn-- certainly not bookstore owner and amateur sleuth Claire Malloy, who decides to bring her petulant daughter Caron along for some detecting. As the guests settle in for a weekend of sleuthing, dressed as their favorite literary detectives, many a Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot stand poised to solve a murder. But fiction becomes alarmingly real, as the mock-murder victim isn't just playing dead-- he's really been bashed to death. More determined than even to find the killer, Claire combs the grounds of the lovely inn for this most uninvited guest.

Review

''Hess's books are funny, acerbic, touching, terrific.'' -- Elizabeth Peters

''Joan Hess is one very funny woman.'' -- Susan Dunlap

''Joan Hess is the funniest mystery writer to come down the pipe since England's incomparable Pamela Branch. And oh, how well Joan writes.'' -- Carolyn G. Hart

From the Inside Flap

When Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron attend the mock murder weekend at the charming Mimosa Inn, everything goes swimmingly until Harmon, the leader of the theatrical group staging the event, turns up as the corpse . . . for real. Now the game turns to deadly earnest . . .