Part of Series
Ellie Haskell catches spring cleaning fever when several members of the Chitterton Fells Charwomen’s Association meet decidedly grisly ends . . . Dear old Mrs Malloy, faithful housekeeper for many a year, has only gone and handed in her notice. After much despairing, Ellie employs Mrs Gertrude Large to keep her busy household running smoothly. But a few hours later Mrs Large falls to her death from a ladder. Ellie quickly finds a replacement, only for her to also suffer a fatal fall—this time in the library. These deaths can’t be a coincidence. One dead housekeeper is a misfortune, but two must be murder. Then a third body is found. This time stabbed to death—it was no accident. Ellie must don her best marigolds and go undercover to catch a killer who’s playing very dirty . . .
Author
(from Fantastic Fiction online) 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. (from Internet Book List) Dorothy Cannell, a mother of four, grandmother of ten, and owner of a King Charles Spaniel, was born in England and moved to the United States when she was twenty. After living in Peoria, Illinois, for years, she and her husband recently moved to Belfast, Maine. Her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.
