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Manna from Hades a Cornish mystery

The day after collecting donations, elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, an...

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Main Author: Dunn, Carola.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Minotaur Books, 2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Cornish mysteries ; 1.
Subjects:
Widows > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Jewelry theft > Fiction.
Cornwall (England : County) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction > England.
Summary: The day after collecting donations, elderly widow Eleanor Trewynn and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers.
Physical Description: 305 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780312379452
0312379455
Author Notes: Carola Dunn was born in England on November 14, 1946. She received a B.A. in Russian and French from Manchester University and took a secretarial course for graduates at Oxford Tech. She traveled to numerous places around the world including Samoa and Fiji before getting married and settling in California. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, she worked in child-care, market research, construction, and wrote definitions for a science and technology dictionary. Her first book, Toblethorpe Manor, was published in 1979. Since then, she has written over 50 books including more than 30 Regency romances and the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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