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And then they were doomed

Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation-in the form of a letter edged in black-to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Bre...

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Main Author: Buzzelli, Elizabeth Kane, 1946- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Crooked Lane Books, 2019.
Edition: First edition.
Series: Little Library mystery ; 4.
Subjects:
Kofman, Nadine tribute.
Murder > Investigation > Fiction.
Small libraries > Fiction.
Michigan > Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Summary: Little Person author Zoe Zola believes that one of the unluckiest things in life is to receive an invitation-in the form of a letter edged in black-to an Agatha Christie symposium at an old Upper Peninsula hunting lodge. Her reluctance dissipates when she learns that the organizer is named Emily Brent-the name of a character poisoned by cyanide in Christie's And Then There Were None. As a dreary rain soaks the U.P., Zoe and nine other Christie scholars-each of whom bears a vague resemblance to one of the classic mystery novel's characters-arrive at the lodge. At the opening night dinner, arguments flare over the experts' discordant theories about Christie. Next morning, the guests find one particularly odious man has gone-whereabouts and reasons unknown. Such a coincidental resemblance to a work of fiction is surely impossible; therefore, it appears to be possible. As the guests disappear, one by one, Zoe resolves to beat a hasty retreat-but her car won't start. She calls her friend, amateur sleuth/little librarian Jenny Weston, but Jenny will have to wait out a storm off Lake Superior before she can come to the rescue. If Zoe's to stay alive to greet Jenny when she eventually arrives, she'll have to draw on everything she knows about Agatha Christie's devilish plots in Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli's fourth tantalizing Little Library mystery.
Physical Description: ix, 323 pages ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781643850009
1643850008
Author Notes: Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli is a writer based in Michigan. Her career includes creative writing instructor at Northwestern Michigan College, book reviewer for The Northern Express, in Traverse City, Michigan. Her work has also appeared in the Romeo Observer, the Detroit News, and the Record-Eagle.She writes novels, short stories, articles, and essays. Her first mystery novel was published in 1983, Gift of Evil. She writes the Emily Kincaid Mystery series which includes Dead Dancing Women, Dead Floating Lovers, Dead Sleeping Shaman, Dead Dog and Englishmen, and Dead Little Dolly. She also writes A Little Library Mystery series which includes Most Curious Murder, She Stopped for Death, and In Want of a Knife. She writes the Nut House Mystery series (written as Elizabeth Lee). It includes the book Nuts and Buried, Snoop to Nuts, and A Tough Nut to Kill.

She is a member of the Author's Guild, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Michigan Writers, and Detroit Working Writers.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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