Marian Babson, Author Walker & Company $16.95 (181p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5750-0
Mystery veteran Babson's latest effort involves a high-powered tycoon, a disintegrating family and a hijacked aircraft. In the midst of a boardroom battle and a divorce, Paul Jarvis is about to fly from his estate in Dartmoor to London to try to...
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Marian Babson. Minotaur, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-33240-2
At the outset of Babson’s lively eighth mystery featuring aging London actresses Evangeline Sinclair and Trixie Dolan (after 2003’s The Cat Who Wasn’t a Dog), Trixie’s daughter, Martha, and Martha’s book editor, Jocasta, are busy testing recipes for
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Marian Babson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-28498-5
Marian Babson's latest cozy, Please Do Feed the Cat, immerses the reader in English village life, after a witty swipe at the kind of graphic crime fiction typical of Patricia Cornwell. A cast of delightful characters, including cats, plus long,...
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Marian Babson, Author Minotaur Books $20.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-19924-1
Annabel Hinchly-Smythe, who makes a living selling hot items to gossip columns, is worrying about money during a particularly dry social season when a chance encounter with wealthy computer magnate Arthur Arbuthnot leads to the promise of a...
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Marian Babson, Author Thomas Dunne Books $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-16929-9
Trouble is brewing in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village that is home to a bevy of mystery writers. Lorinda Lucas is heartily sick of the Sibling Spinster Sleuths, her series characters whom she now thinks of as ""the repellent Petunia,...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-15285-7
Babson pushes the limits of the British cozy in this rambling buddy tale centered around the London pub theater scene. Veteran stage and screen actresses Trixie and Evangeline (seen in Even Yuppies Die, 1996) decide that, since new parts aren't...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-95580-9
Babson offers a witty tale about a Shakespearean actor who, after being mysteriously pushed off a stage ladder onto the theater's cat, must solve the crime while in the body of his feline friend. (June)
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $18.95 (188p) ISBN 978-0-312-10511-2
Winstanley Fortescue, Shakespearean actor and ladies' man (with the morals of an alley cat, according to his wife Miranda), is pushed off a ladder, lands on Monty, the theater's cat, and awakes in the role of his life. His horror at regaining...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-13049-7
Poor Bettina Bilby. Ever since her father's death, she's been living with her hectoring mother, without even a cat of her own to cheer her dreary life. And now a freak storm promises to ruin her long bank holiday weekend, trapping her inside, where...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (189p) ISBN 978-0-312-09383-9
In this humdrum mystery, Babson ( Encore Murder ) unsuccessfully attempts to evoke a creepy, B-movie ambience by casting her series regulars in a second-rate Dracula remake. Trixie Dolan, the somewhat scatterbrained narrator, and Evangeline Sinclair,
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (182p) ISBN 978-0-312-06365-8
Veteran mystery writer Babson ( Fatal Fortune ) again produces a literate, suspenseful tale. Frail American artist Leonora Rice arrives in Little Woadpit-by-Marsh intending to ``bury herself in a quiet English village, where she knew no one and no...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $15.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-312-04964-5
Encore Murder marks the encore appearance of the comedic duo Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair, who first flung rapid repartee at each other and everyone in their vicinity in Reel Murder . Now, real arrows rather than witty remarks fly about with
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-312-04332-2
Those who dread the dentist's chair will crack a smile at this uproarious fourth and final volume in Babson's Perkins & Tate series. Here the public relations team is called in to cap the bad press that is sure to follow when a dentist who attends...
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Marian Babson, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $22.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-312-33238-9
The diverting new feline-themed cozy from British author Babson (Please Do Feed the Cat
) takes readers to a remote castle where a wealthy business tycoon, Everett Oversall, lives surrounded by a harem of female employees. One of them, Vanessa,...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-312-03444-3
British public relations partners Doug Perkins and Gerry Tate make a third appearance here, called in to soothe the disgruntled American tourists on Larkin's Luxury Tour #79. It seems that one of the group, an elderly math professor, died...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-02954-8
The appearance of this second-in-a-series from England will gladden Babson's numerous aficionados in America. Doug Perkins describes the larky and suspenseful action at the cat show that he and his partner, Gerry Tate, have been hired to publicize....
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $0 (191p) ISBN 978-0-312-02180-1
In this rollicking mystery, Douglas Perkins of the London public relations firm Perkins & Tate must keep his major clientan American country singerhappy so that his company can stay solvent. It is no easy task. Black Bart is a tyrant whose sexual...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (186p) ISBN 978-0-312-00693-8
The latest mystery by the popular British author is less engaging than its many predecessors (Weekend for Murder, etc.). This novel quickly becomes static, although the initial premise is intriguing. Karen Randolph hears that her husband John is...
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Marian Babson, Author St. Martin's Press $12.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-312-00227-5
When aging but still feisty actress Evangeline Sinclair, 76, is invited to London to be honored by a two-week retrospective of her films, she eagerly accepts and brings along her longtime friend and fellow actress Trixie Dolan, 68. Eve, whose...
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Marian Babson, Author Walker & Company $15.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5660-2
Babson's 12th mystery has more geneological skeins than the Book of Genesis. Zita is painter David Fallbridge's second wife; Caroline, spoiled and irresponsible, his first. By her first marriage, Caroline had a daughter, Fanny. Now Caroline wants to
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Marian Babson, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-312-28497-8
Ailurophiles will want to snuggle up to British veteran Marian Babson's latest comic feline cozy, The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog. A trip to the taxidermist by Dame Cecile Savoy to get her late Pekinese stuffed leads to a kooky case involving murder,...
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Marian Babson, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-20925-4
Cat lovers perhaps more than mystery enthusiasts will jump at prolific (she's written almost 40 books) Marian Babson's latest cozy, The Cat Next Door, in which Margot, a freelance photographer, must determine whether or not her cousin Chloe is ...
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Marian Babson, Author Thomas Dunne Books $21.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-312-20918-6
In this suspenseful psychological thriller, British veteran Babson eerily portrays the workings of terrified and obsessed minds. Anxious to impress the boys at his new school, 11-year-old Robin agrees to sneak into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Nordling...
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Marian Babson, Author Crimeline $3.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-28590-1
While publicizing a cat show, Doug Perkins investigates the theft of a famous golden cat statue and the murder of the show's organizer. ``The appearance of this second-in-a-series from England will gladden Babson's numerous aficionados in America,''
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Marian Babson, Author Walker & Company $15.95 (180p) ISBN 978-0-8027-5694-7
The quiet of Crozier Crescent, a fairly well-to-do London residential street, is destroyed when a family of squatters moves into a temporarily vacant house. A peculiarity of English law makes it difficult for anyone except the owners to do anything...
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