About this title: Sheila Malory's friends Charlie and Jo Hamilton run a popular riding school in the English town of Taviscombe. When Charlie is found dead in his stables, the entire community is shaken--especially since it is just the first in a series of suspicious deaths. Original.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780451225696ISBN:0451225694
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Date Published: 2009-05-01
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780451225696ISBN:0451225694
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 2008
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780451225696ISBN:0451225694
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"I am a fan of Mrs. Mallory. Her cozy way of solving mysteries has always been both fun and relaxing. But this latest installment seemed rather weak. That being said, I thought I knew "who dunnit" by page 156, and I was wrong. I was even wrong on my second guess. So I suppose that says something.
Taviscombe is a quiet place most of the time. But the widow, Mrs. Mallory, always seems to wind up in the middle of a muddle in the most Miss Marple-ish way. Hazel Holt never had Christie's pure talent for twisting up a mystery, but like I said, they were cozy fun. This title did not live up to the others. And I thought there were a few untidy threads left wandering about at the end of the book, which is quite uncommon. Pity, I was looking forward to reading it and it certainly did not meet my (perhaps too highly set) expectations."
"Not the best of the series, but it was nice to revisit Taviscombe and its characters and catch up with the lives of Sheila Mallory, her friend Rosemary, and their families. A series of mysterious deaths centered around a friend's riding stable gets Mrs. Mallory's investigative instincts going, but the explanation is one even she had not considered. Aging and its attendant concerns are a theme of the book, and also, perhaps, in evidence in the writing; a sprained ankle on page one becomes a wrist a few pages later, and one of Mrs. Mallory's cousins must have the oldest Siamese cat in existence, since the cousin was a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during the war, got the cat "in her fourth decade," and it's still alive in what appears to be contemporary London (mobile phones are in use, at least). But these are small quibbles, and the book was quite enjoyable."
"Sheila Malory is saddened when her old friend Charlie dies, and she's relieved when the police decide the death is a freak accident, not murder, as it had initially appeared. But when his wife, with whom he had run a riding academy, also dies of a freak accident, Sheila is not convinced by the "accidental death" verdict. Part of a genteel English series."
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