Devil May Care
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (718 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B000FCKRHE |
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| Number of Pages | : | 462 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Moe811 said Very Good. Ellie has agreed to house sit for her Aunt Kate. Her pompous fiance drives her down to impress the rich old lady, who dislikes him immediately. After Kate's departure with the fiance to the airport. Ellie experiences all kinds of strange manifestations involving the six founding families of the area. A rare book telling of their boring scandals seems to be the trigger. A neighbor agrees to help her solve the mystery. It seems like a practical joke, until an old friend of Ka. When First We Practice to Deceive Marc Ruby™ I think one of the things I like best about Elizabeth Peters is that she clearly believes that reading mystery stories is supposed to be fun. Of course, there is much to be said for authors that believe otherwise. But sooner or later I need to take a break and lean back with something by an author who has managed to evade all the Sturm und Drang of modern mystery fiction. Someone I can trust with my sometimes fragile psyche. Elizabeth Peters is my all time favorite in this . An interesting plot Fred Camfield This mystery includes ghosts, people's reputations, and the dogthat barked in the night. It was difficult to put the book down.Ellie goes off to housesit her aunt Kate's estate in the Virginiahorse country, and immediately encounters a resident ghost, or isit? Various ancestors of "old families" make an appearance, and just what are the dark secrets the families have buried?Between eccentric Aunt Kate, her friend Ted, the neighboring doctor and his son, Donald, some strange
Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot besatanic.. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes -- including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia
"There's mirth as well as mayhem in Peters's mysteries, and Grace Conlin reads with a mischievousness.Her arch delivery reinforces Peters's descriptions of unlikable people, Ellie's stuffed-shirt fiancé in particular, but her voice warms when impersonating Ellie's eccentric aunt or Ellie herself." --AudioFile
. In 2003, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Malice Domestic Convention. She was named Grand Master at the inaugural Anthony Awards in 1986 and Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America in 1998. She was a member of the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, DC, and won a Helen Hayes Award in 1988 for her role in