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Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Egyptologist Sheila Ramsay develops a newfound interest in MesoAmerican affairs after meeting an outspoken--and attractive--Mexico City curator, a harsh critic of museums that deal in stolen art. And her own museum gives her the perfect opportunity to see him again: a valuable Aztec manuscript needs to be returned to its rightful owners, the wealthy Ortega family. But things don't go as planned for Sheila south of the border. An anonymous note threatens...
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 7
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
In honor of Agatha Christie's 100th birthday, mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance Darling plans a week-long celebration of mystery, treasure hunts, title clues, and Christie trivia. Yet even as the champagne is chilling and the happy guests begin arriving on Broward's Rock Island, Annie feels a niggling sense of doom. The last thing she or her guests expect is that the scheduled fun and mayhem will include a real-life murder.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989, c1988
Language
English
Description
Mystery bookstore owner Annie Laurance and detective Max Darling are finally tying the knot, but a bizarre sequence of events might unravel this blissful marriage before it begins. With the ceremony completed and the champagne goblets emptied, Max sweeps Annie into his arms for an amorous moment when the phone rings and a woman on the other end of the line screams bloody murder.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1987
Language
English
Description
At Annie Laurance's Death On Demand bookstore on Broward's Rock Island, South Carolina, murder most foul suddenly isn't confined to the well stocked shelves. Author Elliot Morgan's abrupt demise during a weekly gathering of famous mystery writers called the Sunday Night Regulars is proof positive that a bloody sword is sometimes mightier than a brilliant pen.
Author
Series
Bailey Ruth ghost novel volume 8
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Bailey Ruth Raeburn is back, racing against the Heavenly clock in an all-new mystery from New York Times bestselling author Carolyn Hart. Bailey Ruth finds herself comforting a distraught sister when she's sent to Adelaide, Oklahoma, on her latest mission. Susan Gilbert receives a $100,000 ransom demand for her younger sibling. When the caller wants Susan to pay a visit to her wealthy boss and take the cash from his safe, Bailey Ruth follows Susan...
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
When her mother-in-law, Laurel, is accused of murder, Annie Darling sets out to prove Laurel's innocence on the murder charge but guilt in meddling in her daughter-in-law's life.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1993, c1992
Language
English
Description
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand bookstore, is shocked to hear talk about her husband, Max, and a beautiful blonde. By the time she's faced down a hostile police chief and bailed Max out of the Chastain, South Carolina, jail, the lady has vanished and Max is the prime suspet in an unspecified crime.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 24
Publisher
Berkley Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Annie Darling--owner of the mystery bookstore, Death on Demand--prefers fictional crimes as opposed to the real things. But in one tragic week, two acts of violence shake the island community of Broward's Rock. First, a beloved doctor is found shot dead, seemingly by his own hand. Only days later, a local artist is arrested after his wife is found murdered, bludgeoned by her husband's sculpting mallet. Convinced her brother did not commit suicide,...
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 10
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Annie and Max thought they could spend a quiet Fourth of July holiday together at the town picnic, but when the head of the library board is killed, everyone in town is a suspect, and it's up to Annie and Max to solve the mystery.
10) Engaged to die
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 14
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
When a murder takes place during a gallery opening, at which the gallery owner introduced her neighbors to her much-younger fiance, Annie Darling pursues her suspicions that someone near to her is responsible.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
What better place for a murder than a college campus? When Annie Laurance teaches a course on the three great ladies of mystery she quickly learns that murder is a subject most academic!
12) Sugarplum dead
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 12
Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
The holidays are filled with potential headaches for mystery bookstore owner Annie Darling and her husband Max as all sorts of people begin to arrive on their doorstep, but no one has planned for the biggest headache of all--a murder.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 23
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore for beach reads. But the Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included. Shell is the kind of woman wives hate, and mosst of them wish she would just disappear. But when she does, and a teenage girl is the only one who seems to notice,...
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Bailey Ruth ghost novel volume 9
Language
English
Description
"After a busy morning dispatching emissaries from Heaven's Department of Good Intentions to those in need, Bailey Ruth Raeburn is feeling flush with success. So when an urgent call for help comes through from her old hometown, she can't resist taking on the mission herself. After all, what could go wrong? With the shouted warning of her boss, Wiggins - "Irregular! Problematic!" - ringing in her ears, she arrives to face a shocking scene: Professor...
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 22
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When her fellow charity shop volunteer Gretchen Burkholt is murdered, Dead on Demand Mystery shop owner Annie Darling enlists the help of her husband, Max, to piece together a puzzle involving an overturned kayak, a stolen motorboat, a troubled love affair, and a reckless teenager.
17) Something wicked
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bookshop owner Annie Laurance investigates when staged theatrical murders during the local amateur production of 'Arsenic and Old Lace' result in real corpses and her fiance Max is the prime suspect.
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 15
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Pleased with the success of her murder-mystery cruise, Annie Darling and her husband, Max, are suddenly on the hunt for a killer when one of the cruise participants falls overboard, the first in a series of suspicious deaths.
19) Don't go home
Author
Series
Death on demand mystery volume 25
Publisher
Thorndike Press Large Print
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is hosting a party to celebrate successful Southern literary icon--and former Broward's Rock resident--Alex Griffith and his bestselling new novel, "Don't Go Home." But after the local paper announces that Griffith aims to reveal the real-life inspirations behind his characters, perhaps the author should take his own advice. Not everyone in town is ready to give him a glowing review. As...
Author
Series
Bailey Ruth ghost novel volume 10
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, Llc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The late - as in Dearly Departed - Bailey Ruth Raeburn is delighted when she's assigned a new mission by Heaven's Department of Good Intentions, even if she is no good at following the rules for Earthly Visitations. This time she's determined to be the perfect unseen emissary, no matter what it takes. Arriving late in the evening in her old hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma to find a woman drowning in a pond, Bailey Ruth carries out a daring rescue with...
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