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Dams, Jeanne M. was born in 1941 in Indiana, United States.
(Dorothy Martin, an American widow living in the English t...)
Dorothy Martin, an American widow living in the English town of Sherebury, stumbles upon the body of an unpopular cleric, and she turns her talents to amateur sleuthing. By the author of The Body in the Town Hall. Reprint.
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(The fourth entry in Jeanne M. Dams's delightfully charmin...)
The fourth entry in Jeanne M. Dams's delightfully charming, award-winning mystery series starring Dorothy Martin. This time, Dorothy dons one of her most outlandish hats and sets out for the Doll House Museum at the imposing Brocklesby Hall to help a friend clear her son of theft charges. But two murders put more than a miniature Sevres tea set at stake and Dorothy finds herself maneuvering a complicated plot that is trickier and more dangerous than any of England's daunting roundabouts.
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(Based on a 1904 unsolved murder case, Crimson Snow weaves...)
Based on a 1904 unsolved murder case, Crimson Snow weaves immigrant life, class and ethnic tensions into a taut drama centered around the Studebaker mansion in South Bend, Indiana. Hilda Johansson, a Studebaker housemaid, doesn’t want to look into the murder of her brother’s sixth-grade teacher. She leads a demanding life, and her Irish sweetheart is pressing her for marriage. But when an influential attorney urges her to clear his name, she must involve herself in a dangerous web of scandal and intrigue. Mystery and history buffs alike will welcome this new entry from an ever-captivating author who effortlessly weaves disparate threads through her plots, from child labor, literacy, prostitution, class, the history of the automobile and the Pinkertons.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1880284790/?tag=2022091-20
( Dorothy Martin's wedded bliss could only be improved if...)
Dorothy Martin's wedded bliss could only be improved if her husband didn't have to go gallivanting all over the world, advising local police on new procedure. Dorothy's life could only be improved if she didn't keep stumbling across the recently-and criminally-deceased.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802733379/?tag=2022091-20
(Like Mother, Like Daughter While Dorothy Martin loves n...)
Like Mother, Like Daughter While Dorothy Martin loves nearly everything about England -- especially her new husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt -- she could do without September's incessant rain. The lure of the sunshine of Cornwall's picturesque coast and an unsolved mystery prove too tempting to resist. Thirty years earlier, the murder of a beautiful woman had become Alan's first homicide investigation. The case, which was never solved, haunts him still. Upon their arrival, Dorothy and Alan meet a young woman who, it turns out, is the daughter of that long-ago victim. Tragically, Lexa shares the same fate as her mother when she, too, is found dead on the rocky shores of Penzance. In a town teeming with legends and lore, Dorothy vows to avenge two innocent deaths and bring a clever killer to justice.
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(Now that Dorothy Martin has proved to the good folk of Sh...)
Now that Dorothy Martin has proved to the good folk of Shrewsbury, England, that she's more than adept at sleuthing, what might be more natural than for her to bring her skills back home to the United States? Dorothy returns to Hillsburg, Indiana, to claim a small inheritance and a large problem. Kevin Cassidy has left her some money and a letter suggesting that if he dies, he's been murdered. On the surface it seems absurd. Cassidy was 96 years old and succumbed to pneumonia. But Dorothy knows about innocent facades, as does her husband, Alan, now retired from Scotland Yard. As Dorothy begins to ask questions, Alan makes a discovery of his own: what Dorothy has been doing is hard work. With no credentials and a local police department that resents his presence, he must now learn how to uncover secrets with no one but his wife to guide him. Fortunately, she's as good a teacher as she is a detective. With all the charm and grace that makes the traditional, British cozy-style mystery a mainstay of fans around the world, Jeanne M. Dams proves once again that Dorothy Martin is a sleuth with staying power.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802733476/?tag=2022091-20
((1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series) The year is 190...)
(1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series) The year is 1900 and Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family. She faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands of a job that is both exhausting and exhilarating. Her struggle to be a good servant is compounded when she discovers, on the Studebaker estate, the body of a woman just returned from missionary work in China. Everyone has a theory. Everyone wants Hilda to stay out of things that don't concern her. But is it possible that she's the only one who can see what the others refuse to even acknowledge? The first in a series that is nothing less than UPSTAIRS, DOWNSTAIRS meets MURDER SHE WROTE. "Dams brilliantly crafts a mystery that defies the usual category." (Chicago Sun-Times)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802776094/?tag=2022091-20
(While on a vacation on the Scottish island of Iona, Dorot...)
While on a vacation on the Scottish island of Iona, Dorothy Martin is dismayed when the weather suddenly turns stormy. Then Bob, a young American--part of an ecumenical tour group from Chicago--slips and falls to his death on the rocks below, and Dorothy finds herself asking questions. The group's attitude to each other--and Bob--seems far from ecumenical, and Dorothy has vowed to get some answers.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802733115/?tag=2022091-20
( Dorothy Martin's neighbor and closest friend, Jane Lang...)
Dorothy Martin's neighbor and closest friend, Jane Langland, has been having a fling with Bill Fanshawe--or, as much of a fling as two 80-year olds in a small town are allowed. Now there are rumors that Jane and Bill may move in together, and Dorothy needs to know exactly what's happening. What neither woman expects is that Bill is missing, and that within a day his body is going to be discovered in the tunnel under the Sherebury town museum. Why would anyone want to harm a harmless old man, a historian who loves the town and the people who live there? Given his age, and the strange letter found in his hand, Dorothy thinks that whatever happened has its roots in WWII. Everyone, including her husband, retired police office Alan, looks askance, but when another old man is murdered--a man who served at the same RAF base as Bill--no one denies Dorothy's suspicions may be right. Dorothy investigates, knowing that the best Christmas gift she can give her friend Jane is the truth about what happened to Bill. And Jane has a surprise of her own for Dorothy...
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(Just Deserts You can take her out of the country, but y...)
Just Deserts You can take her out of the country, but you can't deprive Dorothy Martin of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings, even in merry old England. So this expatriate Hoosier is preparing a feast -- and, naturally, it wouldn't be a challenge without a crisis or two. A retired teacher, Dorothy gets her first serving of trouble when she fills in for a missing teacher at the local school. When it turns out that the woman is now the prime suspect in the murder of her husband, Dorothy takes in the couple's young daughter for dinner. The victim was a cruel man who used his warped view of faith to torment anyone in his path. His death was really a blessing for his wife and daughter -- but did one of them kill him? The answer leads Dorothy to secrets and lies, and into the cold heart of an evil man, and the surprising face of a killer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802733794/?tag=2022091-20
Dams, Jeanne M. was born in 1941 in Indiana, United States.
Graduate, Purdue University. Graduate, University Notre Dame, Indiana.
(Now that Dorothy Martin has proved to the good folk of Sh...)
(Like Mother, Like Daughter While Dorothy Martin loves n...)
(Based on a 1904 unsolved murder case, Crimson Snow weaves...)
( Dorothy Martin's neighbor and closest friend, Jane Lang...)
(Just Deserts You can take her out of the country, but y...)
(Dorothy Martin, an American widow living in the English t...)
((1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series) The year is 190...)
( Dorothy Martin's wedded bliss could only be improved if...)
(While on a vacation on the Scottish island of Iona, Dorot...)
(The fourth entry in Jeanne M. Dams's delightfully charmin...)
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Member of Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Midwest Chapter (past president).
Married.