In Scotland, two lovers escape a wicked enchantment with the aid of creatures from the fabled kingdom of the sea. In India, a Rajah's son loses his human form but finds Enlightenment within the cramping smallness of a bird's plumage. In Germany, the haughty and beautiful Magdalena hovers between two worlds when she becomes Death's own bride. In North America, an Iroquois chieftain is restored to life through the magic of the forest animals. With the superb narrative skill that has made her an award-winning novelist, Rosemary Harris retells ten stories of the supernatural, interpreting old legends from around the world in a new and exciting way. The tales are funny and terrifying, tender and cruel, combining the flavor of the countries of their birth with the appeal of highly original dramatizations. Sea Magic will cast its spell on readers everywhere. The ten stories which are included in this collection are: Sea Magic (British Isles), The Graveyard Rose (Germany), The Castle of Ker Glass (France), Bata (Egypt), Irani and the Cuckoos (India), White Orchid, Red Mountain (China), Sankichi's Gift (Japan), The Cockleshell (New Zealand), The Search for Little Water (North America), and The Small Red Ox (Iceland).

Sea Magic and Other Stories of Enchantment

HARRIS, Rosemary

Macmillan Publishing Co.

While spending the summer on a Scottish island, three cousins find themselves reenacting a strange legend involving one of their ancestors and the seals.

The Seal-Singing.

The Macmillan Co.; NY

the shadow on the sun

Children's Books

Puffin

Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest---but she’s not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark. Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula’s friends is arrested for the crime. Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years.

Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Business Mystery

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Minotaur Books

“A smart, engaging heroine who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty—literally.” - Brian Freeman, author of Stalked A hit with mystery lovers and gardening fans nationwide, Pushing Up Daisies introduced Paula Holliday, ex-NYC media exec turned Connecticut gardener, in Rosemary Harris’s celebrated series debut. Now in The Big Dirt Nap, Paula is back in a second scent-sational thriller. Something stinks to Paula Holliday, and it isn’t just the corpse flower, titan arum, named for its off-putting fragrance. When Paula’s friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expense-paid junket to the Titans Hotel, it seems like a good idea. Paula even manages to squeeze a few bucks and a byline out of the local paper for writing an article on the titan arum, a rare flower that’s just about to bloom and on display at the hotel. But when her friend is unavoidably detained, a would-be suitor is found with a gaping hole in his head, and the corpse flower refuses to bloom, the entire venture starts to seem like less of a good idea. Brimming with wit and wisecracks, The Big Dirt Nap is sure to win rising mystery star Rosemary Harris a whole new slew of ardent fans.

The Big Dirt Nap: A Dirty Business Mystery (Dirty Business Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

New York media exec-turned-gardener Paula Holliday is thrilled when her friend Lucy asks her to tag along on an all-expenses-paid junket to the Titans Hotel. On display is the rare titan arum, a notoriously pungent plant known as the “corpse flower.” Unfortunately, the flower isn’t blooming—and the only thing Paula smells is a real corpse…
Lucy’s would-be suitor has been found dead—with a hole in his head—and Lucy has mysteriously disappeared. Now Paula has to start digging up clues before the police’s worst suspicions take root. Even if the odious flower finally blooms, Paula has more important things to tend to. Because murder, by any other name, really stinks…

The Big Dirt Nap: A Dirty Business Mystery

The talented Rosemary Harris continues to pick up steam, garner acclaim, and collect fans with her quirky, beloved Dirty Business Mystery series Fugitive Mom. That’s the tabloid headline that rocks Springfield, Connecticut when one of the town’s favorite ladies is discovered to be an escaped convict. With a little help from the always game Lucy Cavanaugh, Paula is hired to find out which of her neighbors is a fugitive from the law and why the long-kept secret has finally come out.

Dead Head: A Dirty Business Mystery (Dirty Business Mysteries)

United States

Fugitive Mom. That’s the tabloid headline that has unearthed a whole world of trouble for Paula Holliday. Someone she thought she knew has been revealed to be an escaped convict. Hiding in plain sight—in her own New England town! 
Wanted criminals and secret identities have always seemed like the stuff of novels or television dramas to Paula. But ever since she somewhat accidentally solved a murder in casino country, Paula has cemented her reputation as a part-time detective. All she really wants to do is get back to her simple, everyday life—keeping her small business afloat and hanging out at the Paradise Diner, owned by her friend and former rock and roller Babe Chinnery. But before she knows it, Paula is wrapped up in yet another case. And as she digs deeper into the investigation, she finds that no one is really who she says she is—including herself…

Anthony and Agatha Award-nominated Rosemary Harris is back with her fourth Dirty Business mystery, Slugfest, set at a legendary Northeast flower show where more than the plants are dying.
When Paula Holliday agrees to act as exhibit manager for a reclusive artist she’s expecting a laidback weekend picking up gardening tips. She doesn’t expect to be knee-deep in horticultural sabotage, beheaded gnomes, homicide, and something called The Javits Curse. Then an overeager attendee is found floating in the river and Paula realizes she accidentally holds a clue to his murder—that’s when the garden gloves come off and this flower show turns into a real Slugfest!
 This time out Paula is joined by a colorful cast that includes Rolanda “Fort” Knox, a no-nonsense security guard; Guy Anzalone, Brooklyn's Tumbled Stone King; Jamal Harrington, a high school kid with a black belt and a green thumb; JC Kaufman, a feisty lady who hates leaving home without her weapon of choice; and a slick marketing guy hawking the hottest new product at the show, a foolproof pest repellant that people are dying to get their hands on. 
 With limited means and her ragtag crew, Paula must solve her toughest mystery yet and root out a killer before she finds herself pushing up daisies.

Slugfest (Dirty Business, 4)

Meet Paula Holliday, a transplanted media exec who trades her stilettos for garden clogs when she makes the move from the big city to the suburbs to start a gardening business. Paula can handle deer, slugs, and the occasional human pest—but she’s not prepared for the mummified body she finds while restoring the gardens at Halcyon, a local landmark. Casual snooping turns serious when a body is impaled on a garden tool and one of Paula’s friends is arrested for the crime. Aided by the still-hot aging rocker who owns the neighborhood greasy spoon, a wise-cracking former colleague, and a sexy Mexican laborer with a few secrets of his own, Paula digs for the truth and unearths more dirty business the town has kept buried for years…

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Sea Magic and Other Stories of Enchantment

The Seal-Singing.

the shadow on the sun

Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Business Mystery

The Big Dirt Nap: A Dirty Business Mystery (Dirty Business Mysteries)

The Big Dirt Nap: A Dirty Business Mystery

Dead Head: A Dirty Business Mystery (Dirty Business Mysteries)

Dead Head: A Dirty Business Mystery (Dirty Business Mysteries)

Slugfest (Dirty Business, 4)

Pushing Up Daisies: A Dirty Business Mystery