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Senior Sleuths Theme Mysteries : G – P

What better way to begin this list than by listing Anne George’s Southern Sisters Cozy Mystery Series! Here is the second part of the Senior Sleuth Mystery Theme…

Anne George:  Southern Sisters Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman:  Mrs. Polifax Mystery Series

Jeanne Glidewell: Lexie Starr Mystery Series

Jeanne Glidewell: Ripple Effect Mystery Series – Rip and Rapella Ripple are married sleuth RVers in Missouri.

Margaret Grace: Murder in Miniature Series

Gallagher Gray:  Hubbert and Lil Mystery Series

Annie Griffin: Hannah & Kiki Mystery Series

Jane Haddam:  Gregor Demarkian Series

Nancy Haddock: Silver Six Crafty Mystery Series

Joan Hadley (aka Joan Hess):  Theo Bloomer Series

Carolyn Hart:  Henri O’ Series

Patricia Harwin:  Far Wychwood Series

Gar Anthony Haywood:  Loudermilk Mystery Series

Veronica Heley: Ellie Quicke Mystery Series

Sue Henry:  Maxie and Stretch Mystery Series

Lee Hollis: Desert Flowers Mystery Series – Poppy Harmon is a widow who opens the Desert Flowers Detective Agency in Palm Springs.

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

Jane Isenberg:  Bel Barrett Mystery Series

Madison Johns: Agnes Barton Senior Sleuth Series

Mitzi Kelly: Silver Sleuths Mystery Series

Rita Lakin:  Gladdy Gold Mystery Series

Jill Marie Landis: Tiki Goddess Mystery Series

Graham Landrum:  Club Mystery Series

Suzann Ledbetter: Hanna Garvey Series

Sherry Lewis:  Fred Vickery Series

Donna Lynd: Gran and Bass Mystery Series

Liesa Malik: Daisy Arthur Mystery Series

Sarah J. Mason:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Lisa Q. Mathews: Ladies Smythe & Westin Mystery Series

Stefanie Matteson:  Charlotte Grahame Mystery Series

Lorena McCourtney: Ivy Malone Mystery Series & the Andi McConnell Mystery Series

Mary McHugh: Happy Hoofers Mystery Series

G.A. McKevett: Granny Reid Mystery Series

Camille Minichino:  Periodic Table Mystery Series

Gladys Mitchell:  Mrs. Bradley Series

John Mortimer:  Rumpole of the Bailey Series

Mary Grace Murphy: Noshes Up North Mystery Series

Radine Trees Nehring: Something to Die for Mystery Series

Karen Musser Norman: Frannie Shoemaker Campground Mysteries

Sister Carol Anne O’Marie:  Sister Mary Helen Mystery Series

Helen Macie Osterman:  Emma Winberry Mystery Series

Gail Oust:  Bunco Babes Mystery Series

Nora Page (aka Amy Myers): Bookmobile Mystery Series

Stuart Palmer:  Hildegarde Withers Series

Allison Cesario Paton: Mrs. Bundle Mystery Series

Nancy Pickard:  Eugenia Potter Series (Pickard finished the Virginia Rich series)

Cate Price: Deadly Notions Mystery Series

Anne Purser: Ivy Beasley Mystery Series

Senior Sleuth by Authors beginning with A – F

Senior Sleuth by Authors beginning with Q – W

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Senior Sleuths Theme Mysteries : A – F

Senior Sleuths… hmm… Just how old does a senior sleuth have to be? Does that mean that the sleuth has to be ten years my senior, or my mother’s senior? As someone who not yet qualifies for the House of Pancakes’ senior discount, but who has a lot of friends who do, I can’t quite decide what the age should be. So, I am just going to leave it to the cozy mystery site readers to decide if the following series qualify as senior sleuths or not. It’s all in the eye of the beholder…

Peter E. Abresch: James P. Dandy Elderhostel Mystery Series

Margot Arnold:  Penny Spring & Sir Toby Glendower Series

Marian Babson:  Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair Series

Donald Bain:  Jessica Fletcher Series

Deb Baker:  Yooper Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton:  Agatha Raisin Series

Mike Befeler:  Paul Jacobson Geezer-Lit Mystery Series

Nancy Bell:  Biggie Weatherford Series

Mary A. Berger: Mattie Mitchell Mystery Series

D. B. Borton:  Cat Caliban Series

Allen B. Boyer: Bess Bullock Retirement Home Mystery Series

Simon Brett:  Fethering Mystery Series & Melita Pargeter Series

Emily Brightwell:  Mrs. Jeffries Series

Rita Mae Brown:  Sister Jane Arnold Mystery Series

Dorothy Cannell:  Ellie Haskell Series (Hyacinth &  Primrose)

Heron Carvic:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Hampton Charles:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Nora Charles:  Kate Kennedy Mystery Series

Agatha Christie:  Miss Marple Series

Joyce Christmas:  Betty Trenka Mystery Series

Ann Cleeves:  George and Molly Palmer-Jones Series

Barbara Colley: Charlotte LaRue Msytery Series

B. Comfort:  Tish McWhinny Series

Lesley Cookman: Libby Sarjeant Mystery Series

Alisa Craig: Grub-and-Stakers Series

Elizabeth Spann Craig (aka Riley Adams): Myrtle Clover Mystery Series

Hamilton Crane:  Miss Emily D. Seeton Series

Jeanne M. Dams:  Dorothy Martin Mystery Series

Shirley Damsgaard:  Ophelia & Abby Mystery Series

Jana DeLeon:  Miss Fortune Mystery Series

Nora DeLoach:  Mama Detective Agency Series

Hildegarde Dolson:  Ramsdale & McDougal Series

William Doonan:  Henry Graves Mystery Series

Carola Dunn: Cornish Mystery Series

K.J. Emrick: Cookie and Cream Mystery Series

Monica Ferris:  Needlecraft Mystery Series

Christopher Fowler: Peculiar Crimes Unit Mystery Series

Shelley Freydont:  Lindy Haggerty Series

Senior Sleuths by Authors beginning with G – P

Senior Sleuth by Authors beginning with Q – W

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Taking Care of Business…

Every once in a while I have to put aside some time to "take care of business"….. Balance my check book, take care of bills, try to organize my "real desk’s" mess, punch in our medications’ prescription codes, pick up our medications, get back to people, ETC.

I don’t know why it is that it now seems to take me a lot more time to actually fulfill these simple, everyday tasks. Maybe my husband and I take more medications than we used to, maybe we get more bills than we used to, OR… let’s be honest… maybe I just have too much fun when I’m at the computer!

I am lucky that I don’t "have" to sit at my computer all day, everyday. (I think that "24/7" is the current way to describe this "all day, everyday phenomenon.) I am pretty sure that if I were a data entry personnel, who "has" to sit at the computer "24/7", I wouldn’t enjoy it. And, actually, my neck would probably ache, my back would probably hurt, my feet would probably swell, my … well you get the picture!

But, I am so fortunate to only "have" to sit at my computer when I want to.  Don’t get me wrong… I am sure many people who "have" to sit at the computer all day enjoy it. My husband uses the computer a lot of his working day, and when he comes home, he manages to get in several more hours at the computer. But, he is also very "smart" with the computer, and isn’t as easily (nor as often) frustrated by the computer.

I don’t think that one week has gone by since I started using the computer (years ago!) that I haven’t been frustrated by it. I remember a time when I had to wait for my children to get home from MIDDLE school, so that they could fix my computer problem… (Middle school down here in San Antonio starts with the sixth grade!) And, they quickly learned not to describe what they did to fix the problem, since I wasn’t able (or willing!) to understand. They became my own personal technical support advisers, and their $2. allowances were an amount I could afford! 

Authors Similar to Agatha Christie : If You’ve Run Out of Agatha Christie Mysteries:

This morning I received a letter asking me for some advice. The writer wanted to know which authors she could try who fall in the Agatha Christie “category” (my word, not hers.) I thought that I would write a blog addressing this inquiry, since I have been asked this very same question by several people.

I know that this is presumptuous, but I am guessing that most of us got to be hard-core cozy mystery buffs after we read our first Agatha Christie novel. And, most of us have probably made our way through so many of the Christie novels that we can’t remember which is which. Once we have had our Christie fill, there are other authors we can turn to (thank goodness!) The following is a list of authors who I would consider trying out if I were just starting on the cozy mystery route. This is not to say that they are Agatha imitators… by any means! They are just the ones who I would recommend if I really had a love of all things Christie…

My Author Picks:

Ngaio Marsh:  Inspector Roderick Alleyn Mystery Series

Ellis Peters: Brother Cadfael Mystery Series

Ruth Rendell:  Inspector Wexford Mystery Series

(I have added a lot of authors to this list because they have been recommended by Cozy Mystery site readers as belonging on this Authors Similar to Agatha Christie list. I have not read several of these recommended authors. At first I didn’t know whether to add them to my list or not, since I couldn’t vouch for them. Eventually I added the authors, and hope they truly belong on this list!)

Other People’s Picks for Authors similar to Agatha Christie:

Cathy Ace: Cait Morgan Mystery Series

Catherine Aird:  Inspector Sloan Mystery Series

Margery Allingham:  Albert Campion Mystery Series

M. C. Beaton:  Hamish Macbeth Mystery Series AND Agatha Raisin Mystery Series

Elizabeth Daly: Henry Gamadge Mystery Series

John Dickson Carr (aka Carter Dickson, Carr Dickson, & Roger Fairbairn): Gideon Fell Mystery Series AND Henri Bencolin Mystery Series

Mary Higgins Clark: Stand Alone mysteries

Deborah Crombie:  Kincaid & James Mystery Series

Carola Dunn:  Daisy Dalrymple Mystery Series

Marjorie Eccles:  Gil Mayo Mystery Series

Kathy Lynn Emerson:  Lady Susanna Appleton Mystery Series

E. X. Ferrars:  Andrew Basnett Mystery Series, Toby Dyke Mystery Series, & Freer Mystery Series

Anthea Fraser:  David Webb & Ken Jackson Mystery Series

Dorothy Gilman:  Mrs. Pollifax Mystery Series

Caroline Graham: Midsomer Murder Mystery Series

Ann Granger: Markby and Mitchell Mystery Series

Kerry Greenwood: Phryne Fisher Mystery Series

Martha Grimes:  Jury & Plant Mystery Series

Georgette Heyer: Superintendent Hannasyde Mystery Series

Hazel Holt: Mrs. Malory Mystery Series

P. D. James:  Inspector Adam Dalgliesh Mystery Series

M.M. Kaye: Death in ***** Mystery Series

Jill McGown:  Lloyd & Hill Mystery Series

Gladys Mitchell:  Mrs. Bradley Mystery Series

Stuart Palmer: Hildegarde Withers Mystery Series

Louise Penny: Three Pines Mystery Series

Dorothy L. Sayers:  Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery Series

Georges Simenon:  Inspector Maigret Mystery Series

Dorothy Simpson:  Inspector Luke Thanet Mystery Series

Rex Stout:  Nero Wolfe Mystery Series

Josephine Tey: Scotland Yard Inspector Mystery Alan Grant

Patricia Wentworth:  Miss Maud Silver Mystery Series

Please post your recommendations of authors who are similar to Agatha Christie, and I will add them to the list.

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