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    Mum's The Word
    Femmes Fatal
    The Thin Woman
    Audiobook series4 titles

    Ellie Haskell Mysteries Series

    Written by Dorothy Cannell

    Narrated by Sasha Higgins and Barbara Rosenblat

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    About this series

    This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten. You will relish Cannell's keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannell's uproarious series.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 13, 2024
    Mum's The Word
    Femmes Fatal
    The Thin Woman

    Titles in the series (4)

    • 1

      The Thin Woman
      The Thin Woman

      The Thin Woman

      Dorothy Cannell
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      Voted one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association of America In this delectable debut that earned her instant acclaim, award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a cozy murder mystery to be savored . . . Ellie Simons stands to inherit her Uncle Merlin's huge English country house. But on three utterly bizarre conditions. One: she must lose sixty-three pounds (rude!). Two: she must marry the fake fiance she's been passing off as her true love all weekend. And three: she must catch whoever killed Uncle Merlin in the first place. Her family constantly mock her single status (and her weight!), so Ellie hired a boyfriend for this latest awful family reunion at Merlin's Court. Bentley T. Haskell is devastatingly handsome and so annoying-and he's making this fake engagement very difficult . . . But Bentley and her catty family are the least of Ellie's worries. Uncle Merlin's death looks more than a little bit like murder. Which can only mean one thing. One of her horrid relatives is the killer . . . AN UTTERLY CHARMING ENGLISH COZY MURDER MYSTERY TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO.

      Voted one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the 20th Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association of America In this delectable debut that earned her instant acclaim, award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a cozy murder mystery to be savored . . . Ellie Simons stands to inherit her Uncle Merlin's huge English country house. But on three utterly bizarre conditions. One: she must lose sixty-three pounds (rude!). Two: she must marry the fake fiance she's been passing off as her true love all weekend. And three: she must catch whoever killed Uncle Merlin in the first place. Her family constantly mock her single status (and her weight!), so Ellie hired a boyfriend for this latest awful family reunion at Merlin's Court. Bentley T. Haskell is devastatingly handsome and so annoying-and he's making this fake engagement very difficult . . . But Bentley and her catty family are the least of Ellie's worries. Uncle Merlin's death looks more than a little bit like murder. Which can only mean one thing. One of her horrid relatives is the killer . . . AN UTTERLY CHARMING ENGLISH COZY MURDER MYSTERY TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO.

    • 3

      Mum's The Word
      Mum's The Word

      Mum's The Word

      Dorothy Cannell
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      Award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a delectable English cozy murder mystery . . . to die for. Married to the man of her dreams and expecting a darling little bundle of joy, Ellie Haskell is excited to put her feet up and play the part of pampered wife for the next nine months. But handsome hubby Ben has other ideas. He whisks her off to America for an exclusive gourmet cooking competition in Mud Creek, Illinois. And worse, they're staying in crumbling old gothic mansion that's straight out of a horror movie! Then two of their fellow chefs mysteriously disappear one night. Is this a haunted house? Or is someone cooking up more than they bargained for? Ellie decides to get to the bottom of these deliciously deadly goings-on-before her own husband is the next to vanish.

      Award-winning author Dorothy Cannell serves up a delectable English cozy murder mystery . . . to die for. Married to the man of her dreams and expecting a darling little bundle of joy, Ellie Haskell is excited to put her feet up and play the part of pampered wife for the next nine months. But handsome hubby Ben has other ideas. He whisks her off to America for an exclusive gourmet cooking competition in Mud Creek, Illinois. And worse, they're staying in crumbling old gothic mansion that's straight out of a horror movie! Then two of their fellow chefs mysteriously disappear one night. Is this a haunted house? Or is someone cooking up more than they bargained for? Ellie decides to get to the bottom of these deliciously deadly goings-on-before her own husband is the next to vanish.

    • 4

      Femmes Fatal
      Femmes Fatal

      Femmes Fatal

      Dorothy Cannell
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      Before her beautiful bouncing babies came along, Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale. Marriage to the gorgeous super-chef Ben was going swimmingly before every day was filled with nappies, bottles and laundry. Determined to revive her love life, Ellie joins a new local ladies' group, Fully Female, which promises to restore some oomph back to her relationship by way of a Peach Melba Love Rub. But before long, things start going fatally wrong in the charming village of Chitterton Fells. First, one of Ellie's new friends from the group is electrocuted in her own bathtub. Then Ellie gets a call from another group member. Her husband has fallen to his death in their boudoir at a rather inopportune moment . . . One death could be an accident, but two is decidedly suspicious. Can Ellie save her marriage without falling foul of the curse of these femmes fatal?

      Before her beautiful bouncing babies came along, Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale. Marriage to the gorgeous super-chef Ben was going swimmingly before every day was filled with nappies, bottles and laundry. Determined to revive her love life, Ellie joins a new local ladies' group, Fully Female, which promises to restore some oomph back to her relationship by way of a Peach Melba Love Rub. But before long, things start going fatally wrong in the charming village of Chitterton Fells. First, one of Ellie's new friends from the group is electrocuted in her own bathtub. Then Ellie gets a call from another group member. Her husband has fallen to his death in their boudoir at a rather inopportune moment . . . One death could be an accident, but two is decidedly suspicious. Can Ellie save her marriage without falling foul of the curse of these femmes fatal?

    • 8

      The Trouble with Harriet
      The Trouble with Harriet

      The Trouble with Harriet

      Dorothy Cannell
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      This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten. You will relish Cannell's keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannell's uproarious series.

      This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten. You will relish Cannell's keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannell's uproarious series.

    Author

    Dorothy Cannell

    Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England, and now lives in Belfast, Maine. Dorothy Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency.

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