The Thin Woman

Terrified by the prospect of a weekend with her snobby relatives, overweight Ellie Simons decides to distract attention from her personal and professional failings by arriving with an adoring boyfriend in tow. Unfortunately, no such person exists. Enter Bentley T. Haskell, a devilishly handsome escort who willingly agrees to play the part—for a fat fee. But Ellie and Bentley get far more than a miserable visit with relatives when a weekend with Ellie’s eccentric family suddenly turns very, very deadly.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

CANNELL, DOROTHY

Mystery

Penguin??Books

Scheming her way into the ancestral home of two endearing elderly ladies, Tessa Fields, an orphan in search of her origins, senses that something is rotten in a proper English town. By the author of The Thin Woman. Reprint.

Down the Garden Path (Tessa Fields Mystery)

Literature & Fiction

United States

The award-winning author of The Thin Woman sends her heroine, Ellie Haskell, fresh from the diet wars, on a rollicking hunt for the killer of a fellow member of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen's Association. Reprint. Tour.

The Spring Cleaning Murders (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 8)

The Trouble With Harriet

Ellie Haskell returns for another hilarious mystery that begins when Ellie's long-vanished father reappears in her life, carrying the ashes of his lost love and drawing Ellie into a murderous puzzle. Reprint.

The Trouble with Harriet

The Importance of Being Ernestine: An Ellie Haskell Mystery

Ellie Haskell becomes drawn into a mystery with her moonlighting housekeeper when a modish matriarch reports that the surviving daughter of a late ex-employee may be seeking revenge by killing off her mother's former employers and their descendants.

Young Tessa Fields, an "ex-orphan" bent on discovering her true parentage, devises a scheme involving both phony amnesia and an intrusion on the hospitality of two elderly ladies who may hold the key to the riddle of her origins

Down the Garden Path: A Pastoral Mystery

St Martins Pr

Ellie Haskell---the formerly plump girl turned Thin Woman and happily married mother of three---is also a sometime sleuth and a Gothic romance addict. When her husband's young cousin, Ariel, turns up unexpectedly and begs Ellie to come to the Yorkshire moors to investigate some strange events at the house that her family has recently bought with their lottery winnings, Ellie can't resist---especially since Cragstone House sounds so much like the delightfully musty manors she reads about in books. And so Ellie and her husband set off for Yorkshire, accompanied by their irrepressible housekeeper and co-conspirator in crime solving, Mrs. Roxie Malloy, who happens to have a long-lost sister in the area. Things at Cragstone House are even more dire than Ellie expected. It's bad enough that the kindly cook, Mrs. Cake, has suffered a mysterious fall down the stairs, and a visiting vicar has keeled over dead while drinking a cup of tea, but one of the neighbors turns out to be Mrs. Cake's husband's glamorous old flame, whom Ellie finds more menacing than any cold-blooded killer. Ellie has always thought it would be wonderful to be the heroine of a Gothic romance, but now she's beginning to wonder: Will she be able to solve the mystery and get out of Bronte country with her life, and her marriage, intact?

Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 12)

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

“Ellie, the headmistress wants to see you.” Words to strike terror in the heart of any inmate of St. Roberta’s boarding school who has failed to turn in her Latin prep, left out London on a map drawn of England, or prowled the ruins of the medieval abbey at dead of night. Ellie has been guilty of all these sins and more. Fortunately, however, she is no longer a pudgy, insecure adolescent but a happily married interior designer with three lively children and a beautiful home by the sea. The only cloud in the sky on this lovely day in June is the message relayed by her friend Dorcas, who became games mistress at St. Roberta’s when the former coach, Ms. Chips, retired. Having heard of Ellie’s success as an amateur detective, the headmistress, Mrs. Battle, wants Ellie to come and find out who has stolen the Loverly sports trophy and is seeking to bring embarrassment to the school. Her less than rosy memories of St. Roberta’s notwithstanding, Ellie cannot refuse Dorcas’s entreaties and finds herself in the thick of boarding school life, where an apparent schoolgirl prank soon gives way to murder.

Goodbye, Ms. Chips (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 13)

On a dark and foggy night, charming amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy 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. 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—but she may not be prepared for the secrets lurking behind closed doors.

She Shoots to Conquer (Ellie Haskell Mysteries)

A dark foggy night. A big spooky mansion. And a reality TV dating show? It’s not exactly what Ellie Haskell expects to find when she’s 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 Cupid’s 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

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The Thin Woman

Down the Garden Path (Tessa Fields Mystery)

The Spring Cleaning Murders (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 8)

The Trouble with Harriet

The Importance of Being Ernestine: An Ellie Haskell Mystery

Down the Garden Path: A Pastoral Mystery

Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 12)

Goodbye, Ms. Chips (Ellie Haskell Mysteries, No. 13)

She Shoots to Conquer (Ellie Haskell Mysteries)

She Shoots to Conquer (Ellie Haskell Mysteries)