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Bad housekeeping an Agnes & Effie mystery

When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping t...

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Main Author: Chance, Maia (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Crooked Lane, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Chance, Maia. Agnes and Effie mystery ; bk. 1.
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Great-aunts > Fiction.
Hotels > Fiction.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:When 28-year-old Agnes Blythe, the contented bifocals-wearing half of an academic power couple, is jilted by her professor boyfriend for the town Pilates instructor, her future is suddenly less than certain. So when her glamorous, eccentric Great Aunt Effie arrives in town and offers a job helping to salvage the condemned Stagecoach Inn, what does Agnes have to lose? But work at the inn has barely begun when the unlikely duo find the body of manipulative Kathleen Todd, with whom Agnes and Effie both have recently had words. Words strong enough to land them at the top of the suspect list.
Physical Description:311 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:1683311671
9781683311676
Author Notes:Maia Chance is an American author, born in the late 1970's in Washington state. She began writing as a teenager and finished her first novel in her twenty's. She is working to complete her PhD dissertation in English Literature, focusing on 19th century New England writing. Her first novel was Snow White Red-handed. It was published in 2014, and is the first book in the Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery series. The next books in the series are Cinderella Six Feet Under, Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, and Sleeping Beauty, Borrowed Time. Her other series include the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery, which has Come Hell or Highball, Teetotaled, and Gin and Panic. Her latest work is Bad Housekeeping, which is the first book the Agnes and Effie Mystery series. She wrote a standalone novel, The Trophy Wives of Alpenrose.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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