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Strangled Prose
Master of the Moor
The Case of the Terrified Typist: A Perry Mason Mystery
Death Notes
Sins of the Fathers: An Inspector Wexford Mystery
The Murder at the Murder at the Mimosa Inn
The Case of the Calendar Girl
Live Flesh
Paying the Piper
Wolf to the Slaughter (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback))
The Best Man to Die (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback))
The James Joyce Murders
Bitter Medicine
The Case of the Howling Dog
Guilty Thing Surprised (Chief Inspector Wexford Mysteries (Paperback))
From Doon with Death
Dear Miss Demeanor
To Fear a Painted Devil
Vanity Dies Hard
Hound of the Baskervilles
The Case of the Lame Canary
Talking to Strange Men
Case of the Cautious Coquette
Sweet Death, Kind Death
Caught Dead in Philadelphia

Strangled Prose (A Claire Malloy Mystery)

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Score one more for Joan Hess
Has been reprinted
Unexciting and uninteresting whodunnit
Thank God there are lots more Claire Malloys to read!

Strangled Prose (A Claire Malloy Mystery)
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312968647

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She would have killed for a bestseller--but someone beat her tow it....Professor of Passion, the smutty new romance from Mildred Twiller--a.k.a. Azalea Twilight--isn't the kind of book Claire Mallow likes to hock at her bookstore, but Claire agrees to host a book party for her friend's trashy tale. As torrid as the novel is, it's nothing compared to the evening. After the party, poor Mildred is found dead in her home--stranged with a tightly knotted silk scarf. Now it's up to Clair to find Mildred's killer, and it won't be easy--the two-bit author had offended nearly every faculty member she worked with at nearby Faber College. But who could have hated Mildred with such smoldering passion?

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Score one more for Joan Hess.......2001-10-29

Typical of Joan Hess, it's engaging, interesting and hard to put down. The characters are lifelike, and the town is one you feel like you know.

Has been reprinted.......2001-06-25

... It is old-fashioned in a way. The police procedures are unrealistic and being gay can lead to being fired from an academic post. Much of the humor is heavy-handed and corny (addressing the cop as "Sherlock" for instance) but somehow I found it worked for me. It's unpretentious fun in the tradition of those old English cosies that were relaxing and easy to read if you willingly suspended disbelief.

Unexciting and uninteresting whodunnit.......2000-10-09

The only good thing about this book is that you don't have to read all of it to find out whodunnit. The identity of the murderer is obvious from chapter 2 -- even before anyone has been murdered! With their identity so clear so early on, you don't need any clues or sleuthing, which is a good thing, because there aren't any. When the showdown comes and the murderer's identity is "revealed" to anyone who has bothered to read this far, whopping great loose ends are left hanging around, leaving you asking "But why -- and what about -- ?" The setting -- a bookshop -- could have been interesting but little is made of it. This book is the first in Joan Hess's Malloy series, and as far as I'm concerned, it's also the last.

Thank God there are lots more Claire Malloys to read!.......1999-12-02

What a pleasant surprise! I'd read a "Maggody" mystery some time ago, not realizing there was another Joan Hess series to savor. Claire Malloy is bright, sarcastic, ironic, and funny as all get-out. The plot has enough twists and turns to keep you going... I stayed up way too late two nights in a row to finish it. Peter Rosen has definite possibilities, although his character wasn't developed quite as much as Claire's; since this was Claire's opening gambit, however, that's understandable. Loved this book, and right now I'm trying to figure out the order in which the rest were written so I can follow through properly (I always read a series in order to follow character development). Definitely have your library rustle up a copy of this one, and, I suspect, the rest of the series, as well!

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Strangled Prose
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: New York Ballantine 1987.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000N37FQ6

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Strangled Prose (A Claire Malloy Mystery)
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000NXY3AM

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Strangled Prose
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000P7B8XQ

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Strangled Prose
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTNRCU

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Strangled Prose
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000RTUZG8

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Strangled Prose
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OTLMQS

The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings)

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A feast of history
Marguerite of Burgundy
The historical succession of the Iron King

The Strangled Queen (The Accursed Kings)
Maurice Druon
Manufacturer: Arrow (A Division of Random House Group)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A feast of history.......2001-07-13

One of the seven in the series "The Accursed Kings", "The Strangled Queen" is the story of Marguerite of Burgundy, the ill fated wife of Louis X of France. Incredible historical accuracy, attention to detail and high literary form make this novel more than good reading, like all the other in the series. If you can find all seven, by all means, get them!

Marguerite of Burgundy.......2001-01-02

I am deeply impressed by this book.I really like Marguerite of Burgundy.She is independent woman who is not afraid of her sexuality.Even when she is denounced she keep self-respect and she never said that she made a fault.Some think that she was a whore but it is understandable when you are married such person like Louis X-cruel,dull,ugly,quarrelsome,uncapable to satisfy his wife.I think that she was judged too severely.Isabella,the daughter of Philip IV,exposed and blamed her deed but later she also had a lover.Her husband is supposed to be a gay.Both Marguerite and Isabell have their arguments but Morguerite is supposed to be the fornicatress and is sentensed to death.It is so unfair,life is unfair!We shouldn't judge the other people too strictly!!

The historical succession of the Iron King.......1998-07-14

Marguerite of Bourgogne having fallen into disgrace is emprisoned in Chateau Gaillard. This (her emprisonment rather then her sentence to death) leaves King Louis X le Hutin (her estranged husband) still married and without a women at is side as well as without an heir to the trone of France (since Jeanne de Navarre is considered by Louis as a bastard). Only one of two solutions to solve this problem: either Marguerite grant annulment to Louis (allowing him to take a wife) or Marguerite dies...

8 Titles By Joan Hess Claire Malloy Series : Strangled Prose Dear Miss Demeanor A Really Cute Corpse A Diet to Die for Roll Over And Play Dead Tickled to Death A Conventional Corpse Out on a Limb

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8 Titles By Joan Hess Claire Malloy Series : Strangled Prose Dear Miss Demeanor A Really Cute Corpse A Diet to Die for Roll Over And Play Dead Tickled to Death A Conventional Corpse Out on a Limb
Joan Hess
Manufacturer: Various
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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8 Titles By Joan Hess Claire Malloy Series : Strangled Prose Dear Miss Demeanor A Really Cute Corpse A Diet to Die for Roll Over And Play Dead Tickled to Death A Conventional Corpse Out on a Limb. eight mmpb books.

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