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Mystery of the "They-Deserved-to-Die" Sisters…

I received a letter from Malinda asking for help. She is trying to identify an author of a mystery series who she read several years ago – with an Arsenic and Old Lace type-of-theme going. (By the way, if you haven’t seen this Cary Grant movie that Frank Capra directed in 1941, but which wasn’t released until 1944 >>> try to!)

“My real question… is:

Many years ago, when I first began reading mysteries, I read a book about a couple of elderly sisters who used herbs to kill people who “deserved to die.” It was similar to the Wives’ Club and Arsenic and Old Lace, but none of those are the correct ones.

Do you have ANY IDEA???

Any help you can give, suggestions… will be appreciated.

Thanks!
Malinda”

Since I have had such a great success rate when asking for your help before, I decided to give this question a try!

Thank you all for your help in the past, and in the future!

Laptop Frustration…

I just got back from a rather quick trip out to Washington, DC to visit my daughter. She is interning out there for ten weeks, so my husband and I decided to go out to our old stomping grounds and visit her.

In the past, whenever I left town, I would write a few entries and they would automatically post on the designated dates I had chosen. But this time I decided that I would just use my daughter’s laptop and write a few entries while I was out there. Since it was a very short trip (we left Thursday AM and returned Monday AM), I thought I would only write two entries while out there.

Yikes! Her laptop has a very sensitive keyboard! Once I finished typing the rather short entry from June 12, I decided that I could simply not try to post another entry. That little, itty, bitty entry was quite a confusing, disorienting process for me.

I came back home knowing that I would never give up my mouse… I would absolutely never want to deal with a laptop again. I am simply the old dog-type of person who is happier when able to use out-dated technological gadgets that I am used to. Give me a clunky “normal” computer any time!

E. F. Benson… Queen Lucia… Again!

I’ll be writing a longer entry on Monday, but thought I would quickly write to say that I’m having a fantastic time. (More on that after the weekend…)

I am listening to the first book of the E. F. Benson Mapp and Lucia NON mystery series… Queen Lucia (narrated by Nadia May) and I am absolutely loving it! I know that I have raved about this particular NON mystery series many times before, but I must warn you that it is somewhat dated… having been written in the early 1920s. As I’ve said before, E. F. Benson‘s series is the only series that I have read several times (and plan on reading even more times in the future!) and each time I read it (or in this case listen to it) I discover new things.

Must go… Will write later...

July 2010 Mystery Book New Releases…

The following mystery books will be released in July 2010:

Avery Aames: The Long Quiche Goodbye (This will be the 1st in the NEW Cheese Shop Mystery Series…)

Riley Adams (aka Elizabeth Spann Craig): Delicious and Suspicious (This will be the 1st in the NEW Memphis Barbeque Mystery Series…)

Susan Wittig Albert: The Darling Dahlias and the Cucumber Tree (This will be the 1st in the NEW Darling Dahlias Mystery Series…)

Donna Andrews: Stork Raving Mad (This will be the 12th in the Meg Lanslow Mystery Series…)

Claudia Bishop: Death in Two Courses (This will contain the 3rd and 4th books in the Hemlock Falls Mystery Series – A Pinch of Poison & Murder Well Done…)

Annette Blair: Death by Diamonds (This will be the 3rd in the Vintage Magic Mystery Series…)

James Lee Burke: The Glass Rainbow (This will be the 18th in the Dave Robicheaux Mystery Series…)

Chris Cavender (aka Elizabeth Bright, Melissa Glazer, & Tim Myers): Pepperoni Pizza Can Be Murder (This will be the 2nd in the Pizza Mystery Series…)

Casey Daniels: Tomb with a View (This will be the 6th in the Pepper Martin Mystery Series…)

Eileen Davidson: Diva Las Vegas (This will be the 3rd in the Soap Opera Mystery Series…)

Susan Dunlap: Power Slide (This will be the 4th in the Darcy Lott Mystery Series…)

Gail Fraser: Lumby on the Air (This will be the 5th in the NON mystery Lumby Series…)

Jane Haddam: Wanting Sheila Dead (This will be the 25th in the Gregor Demarkian Mystery Series…)

Rebecca M. Hale: Nine Lives Last Forever (This will be the 2nd in the Cats and Curios Mystery Series…)

Parnell Hall: Caper (This will be the 17th in the Stanley Hastings Mystery Series…)

Susan Isaacs: As Husbands Go (This will be a Stand Alone…)

J. A. Jance: Queen of the Night (This will be the 4th in the Walker Family Series…)

Nancy Lynn Jarvis: Buying Murder (This will be the 3rd in the Regan McHenry Real Estate Mystery Series…)

Iris Johansen & Roy Johansen: Shadow Zone (This will be a Stand Alone…)

Linda O. Johnston: Feline Fatale (This will be the 9th in the Kendra Ballantine, Pet Sitter Mystery Series…)

Deryn Lake (aka Dinah Lampitt): The Mills of God (This will be the 1st in the NEW Reverend Nick Lawrence Mystery Series…)

Victoria Laurie: A Glimpse of Evil (This will be the 8th in the Psychic Eye Mystery Series…)

Sheila Lowe: Last Writes (This will be the 4th in the Forensic Handwriting Mystery Series…)

Mary Jane Maffini: Closet Confidential (This will be the 4th in the Charlotte Adams Mystery Series…)

Cricket McRae: Something Borrowed, Something Bleu (This will be the 4th in the Home Crafting Mystery Series…)

Deborah Sharp: Mama Gets Hitched (This will be the 3rd in the Mace Bauer Mystery Series…)

Alexander McCall Smith: Corduroy Mansions (Let’s hope that this is the 1st in a new NON mystery series! Although the novel was published last year, it was not sold in the USA until now…)

Jennifer Sturman: And Then I Found Out the Truth (This will be the 2nd in the Young Adult Delia Truesdale Mystery Series…)

Robert K. Tanenbaum: Betrayed (This will be the 22nd in the Butch Karp & Marlene Ciampi Mystery Series…)

Chris Well: Nursing a Grudge (This will be the 1st in the NEW Hometown Mysteries Series…)

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