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A Conventional Corpse
Bookstore owner Claire Malloy reluctantly hosts a convention of Mystery authors and their fans. Pretty humorous.
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10/2000
Busy Bodies
A kooky artist gets involved in murder. Claire's daughter and her friend dress up like gorillas...or was it bears?
WORD FOR THE DAY:
HegiographyRead:
10/2000
Closely Akin To Murder
Claire Malloy gets a phone call from a dead person. More or less. Adventures in Mexico!
QUOTE:
Most of the deck chairs were occupied by inert, sunburned bodies clad in everything from terrycloth robes to string bikinis. A heartening number of them were reading fat paperback books.Read:
10/2000
Dear Miss Demeanor
Claire Malloy subs at her daughter's high school, in the Journalism dept.
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The bell rang once again, and shortly thereafter the room swelled with Photo B, a.k.a. the newspaper photographers. We exchanged the necessary courtesies and they managed to talk among themselves until the class was over. Ho hum. Teaching wasn't all that hard.Read:
10/2000
Maggody And The Moonbeams
Arly is talked in accompanying a group of teens to church camp. A group of women with shaven heads live on the property. One turns up dead. Back in Maggody, the Marjorie the pig is lonely.
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9/2007
Martians In Maggody
Crop circles and UFOs stir up the population.
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8/2002
murder@maggody.com
Chief Arly Hanks has to deal with teen trolleps, Internet porn, a biker wierdo and her mother.
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10/2000
O Little Town Of Magoddy
Arly Hanks deal with the results of a home town hero singer returning to give a concert.
Quote and Vocabulary Word Of The Day:
Onomatopoeically speaking, the sound was more like that of a balky outboard motor than the traditional storybook simplification of easily pronounceable phonemes, but it had been one helluva night in Maggody and nobody was in the mood to be picky.Read:
1/2001
Out On A Limb
Claire Malloy ends up with a baby on her doorstep.
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... "What's more, I have nothing to wear tomorrow. I have a pink sundress, but it's strapless." ... I assured her it would blend in well with customary dress at funerals in Farberville, in that I didn't care.Read:
1/2003
Roll Over And Play Dead
Someone dognaps Miss Parchester's beagles that Claire Malloy is dogsitting.
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10/2000
The Maggody Militia
Chief Arly has problems with right-wingers and burglars.
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1/2001
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