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Title: Death on Demand by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 055326351X Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: November, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.57
Rating: 4
Summary: Debut novel in the series
Comment: Annie Laurance runs a mystery book store, Death on Demand, which she inherited from her beloved uncle. Once a week she has a meeting of the Sunday Night Regulars, local mystery writers from the South Carolina island where she lives. One of the writers, Elliot Morgan is a disagreeable fellow who threatens to reveal things about his fellow writers which they would prefer to keep quiet. Before he has a chance to do so he is killed, presumably by one of the Sunday Night Regulars. The local police suspect it is Annie herself but with her friend Max Darling, she sets out to find the real murderer. Max and Annie discover that each of the Regulars has avoided a brush with the law and each has something to hide which Elliot could have known about. There are lots of wonderful references to classic mysteries and mystery writers as Annie and Max work to solve the case. This is the first book of a justly popular series.
Rating: 3
Summary: Especially for mystery buffs
Comment: Since milieu is such an important part of a mystery novel, avid mystery readers will like Hart's Death on Demand book store and the cozy little island community in which it is located. Most of the characters are mystery novelists, and if the crimes and solutions are not brain teasers of the first order, mystery fans will enjoy the familiar references.
Rating: 3
Summary: fun but full of inaccuracies
Comment: Overall, I felt that this book was fun and clever, but certain elements of it, like the literary name-dropping, could be annoying at times. What got me, though, were all the little errors, even when they didn't really have anything to do with anything. Just as an example: In 1987, when this book came out, School of the Ozarks had not yet changed its name to College of the Ozarks, and it is located south of Branson, *not* in the town of Ozark, which is some distance *north* of Branson. I know, minor errors in the grand scheme of things, but if those are the easy facts to check, I have to wonder what all else Hart screwed up.
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Title: Something Wicked by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 0553272225 Publisher: Crime Line Pub. Date: 01 June, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Design for Murder by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 0553265628 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: A Little Class on Murder by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 0553282085 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: December, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Honeymoon With Murder by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 0553276085 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Deadly Valentine by Carolyn G. Hart ISBN: 0553288474 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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