Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook317 pages7 hours
Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
3/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
A bored socialite becomes a cunning amateur sleuth in this wildly entertaining, Agatha Christie¬inspired mystery of murder and mayhem set in nineteenth-century Poland¶“An ingenious marriage of comedy and crime.”—Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel laureate and author of the Man Booker International Prize winner Flights¶ Cracow, 1893: Zofia Turbotynska—professor’s wife, socialite, and bored homemaker—has little more to do than plan a charity auction sponsored by the wealthy residents of a local nursing home and the nuns who work there. But when one of those residents is found dead, Zofia finds a calling: solving crime. Ridiculed by the police, who have declared the deaths of natural cause, she starts her own murder investigation, unbeknownst to anyone but her loyal cook Franciszka and one reluctant nun. With her husband blissfully unaware of her secret, Zofia remakes herself into one the most surprising, and maybe even effective, detectives combing the city streets. But what will it take for her to find the killer. . .before she becomes the next victim?
Unavailable
Author
Maryla Szymiczkowa
MARYLA SZYMICZKOWA is a pseudonym for partners Jacek Dehnel and Piotr Tarczyński. Dehnel is the award-winning author of numerous books, including the novels Lala and Saturn and the poetry collection Aperture. Tarczyński is a translator and historian. They live in Warsaw, and the Zofia Turbotyńska Mysteries are their first shared project.
Read more from Maryla Szymiczkowa
Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Karolina and the Torn Curtain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing
Related ebooks
MR WRAY'S CASH BOX Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Man in the Net Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Kopp Investigates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not that it Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Anatomy of a Heretic: a thrilling historical adventure of treachery and vengeance on the high seas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhat Would Wimsey Do? Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne: A Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unnatural Ends Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thunderpaws and the Tower of London: Nature's Claw, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Horror of Haglin House: A totally enthralling Victorian crime thriller Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Reluctant Matador: A Hugo Marston Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crime at Christmas Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Bingo Hall Detectives Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Innocent Victims: Two Novellas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Among Friends Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Science of Agatha Christie: The Truth Behind Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, and More Iconic Characters from the Queen of Crime Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDeath of the Party Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The End Of Solomon Grundy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHow To Start A Fire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Night Land Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Last Nocturne: A Mystery Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Treasure Train Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBetty Church and the Suffolk Vampire Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Murder Aboard The Queen Mary Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Foul Play at Seal Bay: The start of a page-turning cozy murder mystery series from USA Today bestseller Judy Leigh Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMurder in the Bookshop: The start of a totally addictive WW1 cozy murder mystery from Anita Davison Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Death and the Chaste Apprentice Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Historical Mystery For You
Find Me: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homecoming: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories: A Miss Marple Collection Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Line to Kill: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Rip Through Time: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Eight Perfect Murders: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spider's Web Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The ABC Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery: The Official Authorized Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Stranger in the Lifeboat Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Watchmaker's Daughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Untitled Books Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5We Have Always Lived in the Castle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sentence Is Death: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady in the Lake: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Librarian of Crooked Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Word Is Murder: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mystery of Mrs. Christie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Herb of Death: A Miss Marple Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sidney Chambers and The Shadow of Death: Grantchester Mysteries 1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sworn to Silence: A Kate Burkholder Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lady of Ashes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Things in Jars: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Guardian of Lies Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tread of Angels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Last Jew in Prague Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost History of Dreams: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shakespeare for Squirrels: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing
Rating: 3.205882323529412 out of 5 stars
3/5
34 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This should be entertaining enough, a detective comedy of manners set in 1893 Cracow. But it isn't. There's something about the tone that feels sneering throughout. It makes fun of Zofia almost throughout. She is married to a professor and takes every advantage of his position, she's a social climber. But that doesn't excuse the edge to this, it didn't feel as if it was affectionately taking the mick.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A charming little cozy mystery, and an interesting glimpse of Polish culture at the turn of the last century.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Poland is not often the country we in the US think of when we think of European countries. But it has a rich and varied history, including being partitioned by Russia, Austria, and Germany (Prussia) from 1795-1918, wiping its very existence off the map. In fact, Cracow in 1893 was very diverse in population and complicated politically and religiously, at least in part because of this partition. The authors behind the pen name Maryla Szymiczkowa have written a Golden Age inspired mystery set in this very complex time and place in Mrs. Mohr Goes Missing, the first in a new series.Zofia Turbotynska is a professor's wife. She's a busybody, a gossip, and a raging snob. And she has nothing better to do with her time than to push her unambitious husband's career forward, ingratiate herself as high up in society as she can, and hire and fire maids. She decides that she should run a charity raffle, intending to ask the nuns at the local church run retirement home for contributions from their residents and to get a countess at the home to head up the effort with her in order to give the raffle benefitting scrofulous children the social cachet it needs. But when she arrives at Helcel House to propose her plan, things are all aflutter, a resident having gone missing. Curious and intrigued, Zofia is the driving force behind finding Mrs. Mohr's body but when the little old woman's death is ruled natural causes, Zofia does not agree. And when a second resident is discovered murdered in her bed, Zofia jumps into an unofficial investigation with both feet, pursuing it personally as well as with the help of her cook Franciszka and of her wide net of social contacts giving her entre into places she should never be allowed.Zofia is not an entirely likeable character and that, combined with the slow pace of the novel, makes it hard to get fully engaged with the story. The mystery of whodunit itself is quite complex and convoluted although Zofia's strong determination, she's really a force of nature, leaves no doubt that she will be able to collect all the information she needs to prove her case dramatically in an unveiling scene worthy of the greats. Where this novel really shines is not so much the mystery though as in its examination of class in nineteenth century Cracow, the look into the political climate of the time and its recent, bloody past, the confounding complexities of proper etiquette and society, and the rich and detailed historical setting itself. Zofia is smart and deductive and always (irritatingly) convinced of her own superiority. Her keeping her sleuthing from her dear husband Ignacy is rather entertaining but humor at his expense helps make Zofia just that slightest bit more endurable. Even the other characters all seem to find her to be a pill. Zofia's character and the byzantine twists and turns of the mystery (rarely shared with the reader until Zofia's grand reveal in the end) keep this from being the unreserved pick that the fascinating historical situation of Cracow would have made it and I doubt I'll pick up any more in the series but it was a decent enough read.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Complex plotting follows the genre to a satisfying resolution. It is probably a bit too complex to follow easily, especially with all of the unusual character and place names.