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Detective Book Club: The Case of the crying swallow; The Food dog; Nemesis
Detective Book Club The Case of the crying swallow The Food dog Nemesis Author:Erle Stanley Gardner, Tobias Wells, Agatha Christie 1. The Case of the crying swallow by Gardner: In this second book by the master detective-story writer published since his death in 1970, a classic Perry Mason mystery has been brought together with three short stories: The Candy kid, the Vanishing Corpse, and The Affair of the reluctant witness. Each story concerns stolen jewelry...and each is ... more »a perfect gem; 2: The Foo dog by Wells: When Ming Toy's parents died in an airplane crash in the Orient, she flew to Boston to live with her Aunt Lotus and Uncle Sheldon. And when Ming Toy stepped off her plane at Logan Airport, she stepped into a world she didn't believe existed outside of storybooks...a world filled with men, and millions, and murder!; 3: Nemesis by Christie: When a dead acquaintance of hers, in his will, asks Miss Jane Marple to "investiage a certain crime....to see that justice is done," the remarkable Miss Marple can hardly refuse. Especially when she learns that her reward will be twenty thousand pounds! But there is, at first, just one small problem: Miss Marple isn't given the slightest hint as to what crime it is she's supposed to investigate!« less
Carole T. (CatTrix58) reviewed Detective Book Club: The Case of the crying swallow; The Food dog; Nemesis on
Great mysteries of the old venue. Nemesis was in an earlier Detective Book Club volume, but I always enjoyed reading Agatha Christie's stories more than once!