About this title: No one suspects foul play when the demure Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice; no one except her ever-suspicious neighbors, the Brockleys. When they notice Simone's husband digging holes in his garden, Chief Inspector Barnaby is called in to do the real dirty work.
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
Description: Acceptable. Cover wear with scuffing to edges. Creases to spine. Age toning. Minor tare to back cover. GoodwillnyBooks is committed to providing each customer with the highest standard of customer service. You may return new items within 30 days of delivery for a full refund. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
Description: Grade: C. Catalog: Mystery Crime Synopsis: 401 pages. When bored young housewife Simone Hollingsworth misses bell-ringing practice-her latest effort to find something to do-no one is surpri... read more
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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Binding: MASS MARKET PAPERBACK
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 400 p. Chief Inspector Barnaby Mysteries (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Date Published: 01/08/2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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Edition: Fourth Printing
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780312972950ISBN:0312972954
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"If you're familiar with the "Midsomer Murders" series from British tv, you may have seen the dramatization of this book. Apparently Graham wrote several Inspector Barnaby mysteries and the first season or so of the series took care of them, then subsequent episodes were written solely for TV. Anyway, this was a nice British police procedural in the same vein as Ruth Rendell's Wexford books; the plot had some very nice twists to it."
"Caroline Graham has been compared to Agatha Christie, and the honor is deserved. Her writing is both crisp but careful in the way she unfolds the story. You don't want to stop reading, even if you have figured out the mystery. You want to see how she concludes the story. A lot of fun."
"Graham is a good writer, flowery and descriptive but solid and interesting. She brings a small, parochial English village to life in quirky charm, and is particularly good at the flowers and botany. Her detective Barnaby and his assistant Sergeant Troy are also drawn in different molds than the standard rude but brilliant detective who has a sexually repressed female assistant as in P.D. James. The supposed crime is a missing bored, beautiful housewife isolated in the country by her workaholic, possessive husband. But soon he is dead, and a truly sexually repressed neighbor obsessed with the husband is dead, and the wife was supposedly kidnapped. There is an eccentric lesbian artist in the background. Branaby's taste in cooking and his love for his opera singing wife is a little boring. But in general it is a satisfying mystery, where justice comes through karma, not necessarily through the law."
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