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Johnson Johnson
Johnson Johnson
Series · 7 books · 1968-1991
By
Dorothy Dunnett
Books in series
#1
Dolly and the Singing Bird
1968
Tina Rossi, an opera singer discovers her lover, a top research scientist, dead at their secret meeting place and Johnson Johnson, an artist and amateur detective, helps her unravel the mystery. Also known as Rum Affair/ Photogenic Soprano.
#2
Ibiza Surprise
1970
Originally published as Dolly and the Cookie Bird A young English girl, refusing to believe her father committed suicide, turns the exotic island of Ibiza upside down as she breezes through a maze of double-crossing, industrial espionage, violent death, and people who are not what they appear, to a rousing climax during the macabre rites of the island's native Holy Week. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau
#3
Dolly and the Doctor Bird
1971
Dr. B. McRannoch is in the Bahamas with her father who has moved there from Scotland because of asthma. She is a savvy and tough young lady who shows much independence of mind and spirit. However, when Sir Bart Edgecombe, a British agent who has been poisoned with arsenic falls ill on his way back from New York, she becomes involved in a series of events beyond her wildest imagination. Drawn into an espionage plot where there are multiple suspects and characters, it is only the inevitable presence of Johnson Johnson that saves the day. As with all of the Johnson series, nothing is quite as straightforward as it at first seems, and there are many complicating factors to grip the reader as well as the added bonus of another exotic location. Also know as Operation Nassau/Match for a Murderer.
#4
Roman Nights
1973
Also Known As Roman Nights Johnson Johnson, in Rome to paint a portrait of the pope, helps British astronomer Ruth Russell recover a friend's camera and accidently discovers a murder victim.
#5
Dolly and the Nanny Bird
1976
1983, mass market paperback reprint edition, Vintage Books, NY. 259 pages. This exceptional writer's historical novels are superb and here is one of her excellent suspense novels featuring Joanna, a nanny.
#6
Dolly and the Bird of Paradise
1983
Also known as Tropical Issue The narrator is a Scots-born flower child who has become a celebrity make-up artist despite seemingly insurmountable handicaps. She becomes involved with Johnson Johnson in a sometimes deadly, sometimes hilarious, romp across the Atlantic Ocean and various Caribbean islands in pusuit of drug smugglers, who use murder and piracy to gain their ends.
#7
Send a Fax to the Kasbah
1991
Also known as Morrocan Traffic A bomb explodes in the offices of Kingsley Conglomerates, shattering delicate takeover negotiations and sending upwardly mobile Executive Secretary Wendy Helmann, her inimitable mother, the Chairman of Kingsley Conglomerates, elusive portrait painter Johnson Johnson, and new Kingsley Board Member, microchip genius-cum-appliance designer Mo Morgan, from the board rooms of London to the souks of Morocco. As Wendy endures chases on horseback through crowded narrow streets, vintage car races across the High Atlas from Marrakesh to Taroudannt, soccer championships laced with murder, and even a wild boar in the swimming pool, she realizes there’s more at stake than washing-machine components, or even the survival of Kingsley Conglomerates. This highly pertinent look at the world of big business in the last decade of the twentieth century presents Dorothy Dunnett at the very top of her form.
Author
Dorothy Dunnett
Author · 25 books