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Dorothy Cannell
Full Series List in Order
An Ellie Haskell Mystery
1 - The Thin Woman (Jun-1984)2 - Down the Garden Path (Dec-1985)
3 - The Widow's Club (Apr-1988)
4 - Mum's the Word (Feb-1990)
5 - Femmes Fatal (Sep-1992)
6 - How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law (Mar-1994)
7 - How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams (Sep-1995)
8 - The Spring Cleaning Murders (May-1998)
9 - The Trouble With Harriet (May-1999)
10 - Bridesmaids Revisited (Jun-2000)
11 - The Importance of Being Ernestine (Jun-2002)
12 - Withering Heights (Apr-2007)
13 - Goodbye, Ms. Chips (Apr-2008)
14 - She Shoots to Conquer (Apr-2009)
A Florence Norris Mystery
1 - Murder at Mullings (May-2014)2 - Death at Dovecote Hatch (Jul-2015)
3 - Peril in the Parish (Nov-2022)
Book List in Order: 23 titles
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The Thin Woman
- Jun-1984
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Ellie Simons longs to be thin -- and married. But with her single-minded passion for eclairs and clotted cream, her prospects on both counts seem dim. That's why the summons to attend a family reunion at the old ancestral home is about as welcome as ...
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Down the Garden Path
- Dec-1985
- / Amateur Sleuth
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In a charming English village, nothing is what it seems ... Tessa Fields is a young orphan determined to uncover her true origins. With the help of the Misses Tramwell, two endearing elderly ladies, and the reluctant assistance of her secret love,...
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The Widow's Club
- Apr-1988
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Stylish, amusing, and deliciously wicked -- a superb murder mystery from the acclaimed author of The Thin Woman
Divorce can end a marriage. Murder can do it better.
Meet Ellie Haskell, née Simons, thin woman, newlywed, potentia... -
Mum's the Word
- Feb-1990
- / Amateur Sleuth
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In her latest mystery treat the award-winning author of The Thin Woman and The Widows Club dishes up a deliciously wicked souffle of suspense, motherhood--and of course--murder.... Several pounds heavier--and gaining--blissful mother-to-be Ellie H...
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Femmes Fatal
- Sep-1992
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Once Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale: the one about the overweight, underpaid interior designer who falls rapturously in love with a gorgeous prince and lives happily ever after. But now, four months after the birth of her twins, he...
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How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law
- Mar-1994
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Nothing like a live-in mother-in-law to reduce a woman to the role of junior housemaid. That's what Ellie Haskell discovers when her husband's parents have a row in the midst of their anniversary dinner, and mother Magdalene seeks refuge in Ellie's g...
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The Family Jewels
- May-1994
- / Mystery
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Acclaimed Agatha Award-winning author Nancy Pickard dishes up a perfectly delicious new feast of original mystery stories, served up in classic Agatha Christie style. Celebrating the enduring legacy of the most beloved crime writer of all time, MALIC...
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How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams
- Sep-1995
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Any day now, stay-at-home mum Ellie Haskell plans to slim down, kick the romance-reading habit, and resume her career. But not today, for when she arrives for the Chitterton Fells Library League meeting, she stumbles upon a corpse: Miss Bunch, the li...
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God Save the Queen
- Feb-1997
- / Suspense
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At gloomy Gossinger Hall, where the chill of centuries calls for three sweaters, Sir Henry Gossinger has just dropped a bombshell. He has announced to all that he has rewritten his will, bequeathing everything to his devoted butler, Hutchins. Not sin...
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The Gentleman's Gentleman
- Mar-1997
- / Mystery
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Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...
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The Spring Cleaning Murders
- May-1998
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Dust mops ... deadly? Ellie Haskell--Dorothy Cannell's heroine of the weight-loss wars and busy mother of twins--returns in a mystery that fizzes with deadly wit. When the ever-caustic Mrs. Roxie Malloy tearfully leaves her employ, Ellie Haskell i...
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The Trouble With Harriet
- May-1999
- / Amateur Sleuth
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A delayed vacation is the least of Ellie Haskell's worries when her long-lost father shows up on her doorstep with some rather troublesome baggage Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, haven't had a vacation in years. Now their bags are packed, and ...
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Bridesmaids Revisited
- Jun-2000
- / Amateur Sleuth
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"Rosemary, Thora, and Jane, lived at the end of the lane, one was thin, one was fat, and one was very plain." This is how Ellie Haskell remembers her grandmother's three friends, known collectively as "the bridesmaids." Ellie once asked her mother...
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The Importance of Being Ernestine
- Jun-2002
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Reluctant best pals Ellie and Mrs. Malloy masquerade as detectives--can they find the killer before they kill each other? Ever since Mrs. Malloy started moonlighting in a detective's office her employer, Ellie Haskell, has grudgingly missed the ca...
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What the Butler Saw
- 2004
- / Suspense
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Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...
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Withering Heights
- Apr-2007
- / Amateur Sleuth
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Ellie Haskell -- the formerly plump girl turned Thin Woman, happily married mother of three, Gothic romance addict, and sometime sleuth -- is back! When her in-laws invite her to the Yorkshire moors, Ellie can't resist. The name "Cragstone House" ...
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Goodbye, Ms. Chips
- Apr-2008
- / Amateur Sleuth
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It's back to school for plump girl turned Thin Woman Ellie Haskell! "The headmistress wants to see you." Words to strike terror in the heart of any inmate of St. Roberta's boarding school. Fortunately for Ellie, she is no longer a pudgy, wayward pup...
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She Shoots to Conquer
- Apr-2009
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On a dark and foggy night, charming amateur sleuth Ellie Haskell, her husband Ben, and her plucky sidekick Mrs. Malloy find themselves stranded at a grand estate on the Yorkshire moors. Lord Belfrey of Mucklesfeld Manor has decided to save his crumbl...
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Sea Glass Summer
- Oct-2012
- / Romantic Suspense
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During the course of a long, hot summer in the picturesque coastal village of Sea Glass, shattered lives are restored and new romance blossoms. Recovering from a painful divorce, Sarah Draycott has moved to the picture-postcard village of Sea Gla...
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Murder at Mullings
- May-2014
- / Historical Mystery
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An intriguing 1930s country house murder mystery: first in the brand-new Florence Norris series In its 300-year history, there has never once been a scandal at Mullings, ancestral home of the decent but dull Stodmarsh family. Until, that is, Edwar...
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Death at Dovecote Hatch
- Jul-2015
- / Mystery
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November, 1932. Still reeling from the recent murder at Mullings, country estate of the wealthy Stodmarsh family, the peaceful little village of Dovecote Hatch is about to be rocked by news of another violent death. When mild-mannered Kenneth Tenneso...
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Peril in the Parish
- Nov-2022
- / Historical Mystery
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Secrets, mystery and wedding bells at Dovecote Hatch!1933, Dovecote Hatch, England. Florence Norris knows she has found a good man in George ‘Birdie’ Bird, the landlord of the local pub, The Dog & Whistle. They are set to marry in t...
Award-Winning Books by Dorothy Cannell
1994 Agatha Award -- Short Story