The Body in the Vestibule - A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Informationen zum Autor Katherine Hall Page is the author of twenty-five previous Faith Fairchild mysteries, the first of which received the Agatha Award for best first mystery.  The Body in the Snowdrift  was honored with the Agatha Award for best novel of 2006. Page also won an Agatha for her short story “The Would-Be Widower.” The recipient of the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement, she has been nominated for the Edgar, the Mary Higgins Clark, the Maine Literary, and the Macavity awards. She lives in Massachusetts and Maine with her husband. Klappentext Satisfying her hunger for epicurean adventure in the French provinces, small town caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild decides to throw the perfect dinner party. But during cleanup after the last guest has departed her gastronomical triumph, she encounters something neither expected nor welcome: a dead body lying in her vestibule. Unfortunately it doesn't help la belle americaine's credibility when the corpse vanishes before the local gendarmes arrive. But Faith realizes that, though the police refuse to take her seriously, a killer just might. And if she doesn't get to the bottom of this fiendish French conundrum, Faith's recent successful feast could end up being her last. Zusammenfassung Satisfying her hunger for epicurean adventure in the French provinces! small town caterer and minister's wife Faith Fairchild decides to throw the perfect dinner party. But during cleanup after the last guest has departed her gastronomical triumph! she encounters something neither expected nor welcome: a dead body lying in her vestibule. Unfortunately it doesn't help la belle americaine's credibility when the corpse vanishes before the local gendarmes arrive. But Faith realizes that! though the police refuse to take her seriously! a killer just might. And if she doesn't get to the bottom of this fiendish French conundrum! Faith's recent successful feast could end up being her last. ...

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Hall Page
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.1993
• EAN: 9780380720798
• ISBN: 978-0-380-72079-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 171 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Faith Fairchild Mysteries; Faith Fairchild Mysteries
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Thriller / suspense fiction, Family life fiction, Humorous fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION: Thrillers / Crime, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Amateur Sleuth, FICTION: Humorous / General, FICTION: Satire, FICTION: Mystery & Detective / Cozy / Culinary, Cookery / food and drink / food writing