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Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 20
Language
English
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"Ellie's husband Thomas, a retired minister, is suspicious when he receives not one but five letters advising him that he has been bequeathed money by five different people in their wills. He barely knew three of his benefactors, and what could possibly connect him to the other two strangers? Sensing something isn't right, and with Thomas's reputation at stake, Ellie investigates but is soon distracted, not only by the problem of trying to ease Hetty,...
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Series
Publisher
Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While out collecting laurel for formidable flower arranger Mrs Dawes, feisty widow Ellie Quicke comes across a corpse without an identity. Next day, Ellie discovers Mrs Dawes badly beaten and close to death. Much to Ellie's dismay, the police think shaven-headed Neil, Mrs Dawes' grandson, is responsible, even after a third body comes to light ... So who has lost their identity and who has gained it?
Author
Series
Publisher
Ostara Pub
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Ellie Quick, avid gardener and unlikely sleuth, is helping her new neighbors restore the neglected garden on their property. While digging a hole for a fountain, they discover a body. Who was the victim, and how long has the body been there?
Author
Publisher
Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
[2010], 2003
Language
English
Description
Adjusting to life as a wealthy widow, Ellie Quicke is shattered to hear that her difficult but endearing Aunt Drusilla has been killed in a freak accident. But what if it were not an accident? The police are suspicious of all those closest to Aunt Drusilla, and Ellie struggles to keep her family from falling apart as each one in turn is suspected of murder.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ostara Publishing
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her newly single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else making demands on her; Diana, her selfish daughter, who expects Ellie to drop everything to babysit, the builders working on her new conservatory and her elderly and irritable Aunt Drusilla. To cap it all, ten-year-old Tod, who lives next door, has gone missing.
Author
Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Severn House Large Print
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When Ellie Quickes friend witnesses a Pitbull attack in the park, she goes into shock. Soon there are other attacks ... and after each one, the dog vanishes. Meanwhile, Ellies personal life is heading for meltdown. Driven to distraction, Ellie hardly has time to hunt down a killer dog, and has no idea that she is the next target until the police question her for a crime she didnt commit!
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Series
Ellie Quicke mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Ellie Quicke is shocked when her daughter, Diana, turns up at her door with a suitcase in tow. Bunny Brewster has died of an overdose, and Diana's husband, Evan, is convinced that she is responsible for his friend's death. It seems that Diana and four other neglected, bored wives of Evan's friends recently joked about ways to kill their husbands. Diana's suggested method of murder involved muddling up pills--could this be how Bunny died, or was it...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ostara Pub
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
The couple argue next door, the boy next door seems to know more than he is saying and the murder victim's mother is missing. This first in a series of mysteries is based in a church setting, and features Ellie Quicke, a recently widowed woman who finds herself to be something of a sleuth--Fantastic Fiction.
10) False account
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Wealthy Marcia Tredgold and her daughter, Charlotte, want Bea Abbot to find them replacements for staff who have left under a cloud. Bea discovers that all those dismissed were close to Marcia Tredgold, and senses that something is not right. Were they framed, and if so by whom - and why? Even more curiously, when Marcia Tredgold gets Bea alone, she asks her to find out who killed her two cats. Bea resists becoming involved in the strange goings-on...