Synopses & Reviews
“A thoroughly entertaining series.” —Cosmopolitan
A dark foggy night. A big spooky mansion. And a reality TV dating show? Its not exactly what Ellie Haskell expects to find when shes stranded near the Yorkshire moors with her husband Ben and plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy. Even more surprising, Mrs. Malloy gleefully signs on with the other bachelorettes when she learns Lord Belfry is the prize. Why, some women would kill to marry a lord. And others, apparently, would die…
SHE SHOOTS TO CONQUER
Even before the shooting starts, a would-be bride is knocked out of the game—literally—in a fatal car wreck. Then another is struck by Cupids arrow in an archery contest. Ellie is beginning to suspect that murder is a grim reality in this doomed TV production. And, somewhere in the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Mucklesfeld Manor, another life is about to be cancelled…
“Hilarious and engaging sleuth Ellie Haskell is back—always a good thing for the health of British cozies.”—Booklist
Review
SHE SHOOTS TO CONQUER
“If British cozy fans who have somehow missed the earlier books in Cannells endearing series give this one a try, they will soon be clamoring to read the rest…Charming.”
—Booklist
“A delight…A satire on the gothic suspense novel, She Shoots to Conquer is also an engaging mystery, as the deft and talented Cannell proves again that hilarity and horror can meet.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
GOODBYE, MS. CHIPS
“Engaging Ellie provides a peek at boarding-school charms and horrors while solving one of her more intriguing cases.”—Kirkus Reviews
“This humorous cozy is filled with sympathetic characters and an inside look at an English boarding school.”—Booklist
WITHERING HEIGHTS
“Cannell is a master of subtle wit and humorous asides that lift her cozies to great heights. Before the influx of writers trying to out-humor Janet Evanovich, there was Dorothy Cannell. Long may she write!”—Library Journal
“A veritable meringue of a book, light and crisp and airy, but with enough of a puzzle to engage as well as entertain the reader.”—The Denver Post
“It is the absurd predicaments of her central characters that readers find themselves recalling, and Cannell is cunning at devising outlandish situations for them.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Witty…a funny, entertaining puzzler.”—Publishers Weekly
“Archly literate and witty, with a soft center.”—Kirkus Reviews
“One of the years funniest and most engaging mysteries.”—Elizabeth Peters, New York Times bestselling author of the Amelia Peabody mysteries
Synopsis
On a dark and foggy night, charming amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her plucky sidekick Mrs. Mallow find themselves stranded at a grand estate on the Yorkshire moors. Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbling establishment by offering himself as the prize on a TV reality show titled "Here Comes the Bride." Thrilled at the prospect of marrying a lord, Mrs. Malloy eagerly joins the competition. But after one of the potential brides is shot during an archery contest, Ellie begins to explore the dark passageways and hidden nooks of the delightfully Gothic estate -- and it's quite possible she's not prepared for the secrets lurking behind closed doors.
Synopsis
Ellie Haskell is on the case in an exciting new cozy--the 13th in the series--set in an old Gothic mansion near the Yorkshire moors. Martin's Press.
Synopsis
“A thoroughly entertaining series.” Cosmopolitan
A dark foggy night. A big spooky mansion. And a reality TV dating show? Its not exactly what Ellie Haskell expects to find when shes stranded near the Yorkshire moors with her husband Ben and plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy. Even more surprising, Mrs. Malloy gleefully signs on with the other bachelorettes when she learns Lord Belfry is the prize. Why, some women would kill to marry a lord. And others, apparently, would die…
SHE SHOOTS TO CONQUER
Even before the shooting starts, a would-be bride is knocked out of the gameliterallyin a fatal car wreck. Then another is struck by Cupids arrow in an archery contest. Ellie is beginning to suspect that murder is a grim reality in this doomed TV production. And, somewhere in the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Mucklesfeld Manor, another life is about to be cancelled…
“Hilarious and engaging sleuth Ellie Haskell is backalways a good thing for the health of British cozies.”Booklist
Synopsis
A dark foggy night. A big spooky mansion. And a reality TV dating show? Its not exactly what Ellie Haskell expects to find when shes stranded near the Yorkshire moors with her husband Ben and plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy. Even more surprising, Mrs. Malloy gleefully signs on with the other bachelorettes when she learns Lord Belfry is the prize. Why, some women would kill to marry a lord. And others, apparently, would die…
Even before the shooting starts, a would-be bride is knocked out of the game—literally—in a fatal car wreck. Then another is struck by Cupids arrow in an archery contest. Ellie is beginning to suspect that murder is a grim reality in this doomed TV production. And, somewhere in the dark passageways and hidden nooks of Mucklesfeld Manor, another life is about to be cancelled
About the Author
DOROTHY CANNELL, a mother of four, grandmother of ten, and owner of a King Charles Spaniel, was born in England and moved to the United States when she was twenty. After living for years in Peoria, Illinois, she and her husband moved to Maine. On a lark twenty years ago, she took a writing class. The product of that class, her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. She has written thirteen mysteries featuring Ellie, whom Booklist describes as “part Miss Marple, part modern British mum.”