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The Man on the Istanbul Train Author: Maria Hudgins Published: May 14, 2012Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: Lacy Glass, Paul Hannah En route to an archaeological dig in central Turkey, Dr. Lacy Glass befriends a poor bedraggled man who is about to be thrown off the train because he has no ticket. She buys one for him. Next morning, this same man goes flying past her train window--dead. Upon arriving at the dig, she learns that a man named Max Sebring has died there that morning. This is the name she found embossed in the collar of a trench coat the dead man from the train left behind. Who was the real Max Sebring? Click for more info. |
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Scorpion House Author: Maria Hudgins Published: March 26, 2012Category: Mystery/Thriller Main Character: Lacy Glass, Paul Hannah Egypt, 2009. Nine scientists, are living together in an expedition house on the west bank of the Nile while they explore and analyze the tomb of an Eighteenth Dynasty nobleman. As one after another of her housemates dies under odd circumstances, Dr. Lacy Glass, botanist from Virginia, begins to wonder if they will all end up dead. Who is killing them, one by one, and why? On Kindle and Amazon Prime. Click for more info. |
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Death on the Aegean Queen Author: Maria Hudgins Published: May 19, 2010 by Five Star/Cengage Series Name: Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries Category: Mystery Main Character: Dotsy Lamb, Marco Quattrocchi, Lettie Osgood, Ollie Osgood, Sophie Antonakos, Luc Girard George Gaskill, an American tourist, goes missing from the stern deck of the cruise ship Aegean Queen leaving only a pool of blood and a strange note behind. Ollie Osgood, the husband of Dotsy Lamb's best friend Lettie, is the last person to have seen him and one of three men who lost a bundle to George in a Texas Hold'em Poker game. Then the ship's photographer turns up murdered on the beautiful island of Mykonos. Click for more info. |
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Death of a Lovable Geek Author: Maria Hudgins Published: May 16, 2008 by Five Star Series Name: Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries Category: Traditional Main Character: Dotsy Lamb The body of young Froggy Quale lies, covered by a blue tarp, in the pasture behind Castle Dunlaggan in the Scottish Highlands. Froggy was the on-site pollen and spore expert at the nearby archaeological dig and a graduate student who doesn't seem to have had an enemy in the world. Suspicion for the murder falls on his roommate, Van Nguyen, a graduate student from America and the dig's media man. Dotsy has become fond of both Froggy and Van and is sure Van can't be the killer. The mystery involves an amethyst earring, poison mushrooms, a Border collie, a ferret, and an old family secret. Click for more info. |
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Death of an Obnoxious Tourist Author: Maria Hudgins Published: May 1, 2006 by Five Star/Thomson Gale Series Name: Dotsy Lamb Travel Mysteries Category: Traditional Main Character: Dotsy Lamb Dotsy Lamb, history professor from Virginia and recently divorced empty-nester, and her friend Lettie are on a group tour of Italy when a singularly obnoxious member of the group is murdered in her Florence hotel room. The woman was traveling with her two sisters, and the murder weapon is a knife that everyone knows was bought by one of those sisters the day before. The killer may be a member of their tour group, a gypsy from a nearby camp, or any of four people they've met since their arrival. There are motive galore. |
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