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Detective Book Club: Nine o'clock tide; The Case of the one-penny orange; Death by bequest
Detective Book Club Nine o'clock tide The Case of the onepenny orange Death by bequest Author:Mignon Eberhart, E. V. Cunningham, Mary McMullen 1: Nine O'clock tide by Mignon Eberhart (c)1978: This story begins with an apparently cut-and-dried murder of a wealthy man married to a young, attractive girl. How and why Sam, a splendid swimmer, could have drowned off his own beach one beautiful evening, makes a very readable novel of suspense; 2: The Case of the one-penny orange by E. V. Cun... more »ningham (c)1977: In this first of a series of murder mysteries, Veverly Hills detective Masai Masuto is assigned to solve the murder of a well-known stamp dealer. He quickly realizes the incredible passion felt by stamp collectors for rare stamps--especially the world's most valuable one''the 1847 One-Penny_Orange from the island of Mauritius. He discovers that to acquire such a prize almost anything goes, even murder; 3: Death by bequest by Mary McMullen (c)1977: Celia's bequest is a huge old Philadelphia house filled with dust-covered furniture, all of which she had been looking at with distaste on her dutiful yearly visits to her aunt. But when the old woman died, leaving her the house and the contents, she asked her antique dealer husband to at least take a look beneath the coverings. The sigt so electrfied him that he decided all obstacles to his selling the stuff for his own profit must be removed, including Celia. But complications arise..Celia does not know about the value of the furnishings, and another determined "heir" suddenly appears on the scene.« less