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Humorous Mysteries
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Mysteries with a humorous twist.
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Andrews, Donna Owls Well That Ends Well Hoping to clear out years of junk that has accumulated in a recently purchased, dilapidated mansion, Meg and Michael host a big lawn sale that becomes the scene of a murder when a body is discovered in the barn, a situation that compromises Michael's tenure. 2005 Adult Mystery Book ANDREWS |
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Babson, Marian. No Cooperation from the Cat : a Mystery Overseeing her daughter's frantic attempts to identify recipes in time for a cookbook deadline, aging actress Trixie and her companion, Evangeline, investigate claims that the original cookbook author died after eating one of the recipes. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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Barry, Dave Big Trouble A slapstick thriller set in Florida, featuring oddball characters. They include a homeless man who lives in a tree, a student with a squirt gun playing a game called Killer, a couple of real killers, and a terrorist with a nuclear bomb in a suitcase. 1999 Adult Fiction Book |
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Beaton, M. C. Death of a Dreamer Surprised that a newcomer to the Scottish highlands has remained steadfast to her new home in spite of an inhospitable winter, constable Hamish Macbeth learns that the woman has deluded herself into believing that she is engaged to a local artist, a situation that turns deadly when she is found poisoned. 2006 Adult Fiction Book BEATON |
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Berney, Louis Gutshot Straight Charles "Shake" Bouchon, is fresh out of prison and determined to stay on the straight and narrow. But, in less than 48 hours, he's double-crossed one mob boss, stolen from another, and is in search of a briefcase containing valuable relics; he and every other crook between LA and Vegas. Will Shake survive and be able to open his dream restaurant? 2010 Adult Fiction Book BERNEY |
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Bradley, C. Alan The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag Flavia de Luce, a dangerously brilliant eleven-year-old with a passion for chemistry and a genius for solving murders, sets out to solve the murder of a beloved puppeteer. All clues point toward a suspicious death years earlier and a case the local constables can't solve--without Flavia's help. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Cannell, Dorothy The Importance of Being Ernestine Ellie Haskell becomes drawn into a mystery with her moonlighting housekeeper when a modish matriarch reports that the surviving daughter of a late ex-employee may be seeking revenge by killing off her mother's former employers and their descendants. 2002 Adult Mystery Book CANNELL |
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Cash, Dixie. I Can't Make You Love Me but I Can Make You Leave Darla Denman, the former Queen of Country Music, has trouble on her hands. First, her upstart back-up singer Roxie Jo Jenkins is found dead in her dressing room (otherwise known as a supply closet). Second, her career is on the skids-- from big arenas to run down bars and from first-class jets to fourth-class buses. And yes, to top it all that bus has broken down just outside of Salt Lick, Texas. Someone has to figure out who murdered Roxie Jo, so it's up to those Domestic Equalizers--Edwina and Debbie Sue - to help her out. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Colfer, Eoin. Plugged : a Novel When his girlfriend and several people close to him are murdered, Daniel McEvoy finds himself targeted by the New Jersey mafia, corrupt cops, and an eccentric neighbor. The logical thing to do is search for a hair-plug technician who may hold crucial answers. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Coonts, Deborah Wanna Get Lucky? A young woman plunges from a Las Vegas sightseeing helicopter, landing in the pirates' lagoon in front of the Treasure Island Hotel in the middle of the 8:30 p.m. pirate show. Everyone writes her off as another Vegas victim, except Lucky O'Toole. As head of Customer Relations at Babylon megacasino and resort, she's got a lot on her plate, but she can't resist getting involved in this one. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Davidson, Diane Mott Double Shot In a latest installment of the mystery-and-recipe series, Goldy Schultz becomes the victim of threats, rumor, and violence after the release of her charismatic and abusive ex-husband, a situation that escalates to the point of a murder and forces Goldy to fend off a pair of detectives and solve a crime that would tear her family apart. 2004 Adult Mystery Book DAVIDSON |
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Evanovich, Janet Twelve Sharp Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum's typically chaotic life is thrown into greater turmoil by the appearance of a mysterious female stalker with a close connection to Ranger. Stephanie doesn't have time to think about that, though - she and Ranger must work together to find a killer, rescue a missing child, and stop a lunatic from raising the body count. 2006 Adult Mystery Book |
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Fforde, Jasper. The Fourth Bear The psychopathic Gingerbreadman is leaving bodies in his wake, but Jack Spratt (Detective Chief Inspector with the Nursery Crime Division)and his assistant Mary Mary can't investigate. They have to track down reporter Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, who was last seen alive by the three (or was it four?) bears. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Ford, Michael Thomas. Jane Bites Back : a Novel Two hundred years after her death, Jane Austen is still surrounded by the literature she loves--but now it's because she's the owner of Flyleaf Books in a sleepy college town in Upstate New York--and a vampire, too. Suddenly in the spotlight, she must hide her real identity--and fend off a dark man from her past while juggling two modern suitors. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Forman, Steven M. Boca Knights Retired cop Eddie Perlmutter has bad knees and arthritis, but isn't ready to be put out to pasture just yet. To escape the Boston weather, he moves to Boca Raton Florida, where he busts a ring of Russian counterfeiters in a bare (albeit arthritic) knuckle encounter that catches the attention of the local police chief. With a wink and nod, the top cop urges Eddie to get his PI license and take on the city's toughest criminals. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Friedman, Kinky Meanwhile Back at the Ranch : a Novel It's a case of missing kid and missing kitty when Kinky Friedman, private dick extraordinaire and animal lover nonpareil, attempts to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky, both of whom have disappeared. 2002 Adult Fiction Book |
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Gavin, Rick Ranchero Attacked by a belligerent man who steals an important car and flees with a television that was being repossessed, Nick Reid and his best friend, Desmond, pursue the man and find themselves on the trail of a notorious meth producer. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hale, Rebecca M. Nine Lives Last Forever After she finds a note from her late uncle instructing her to "follow the frogs," amid rumors of treasure and murder, Rebecca gets caught up in the chase, along with her two cats, her uncle's crazy friends, and his oldest enemy. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hall, Parnell. Hitman PI Stanley Hastings' newest client Martin Kessler is a contract killer who wants to retire. He hires Stanley to watch his back in case someone is after him. Someone is, Stanley misses him, and that's when the bodies start to pile up. And will the real Martin Kessler please stand up?? 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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HUMOROUS MYSTERIES...
AUTHORS
| • | Andrews, Donna |
| • | Babson, Marian |
| • | Beaton, M. C. |
| • | Beck, K. K. |
| • | Block, Lawrence
Bernie Rhodenbarr series |
| • | Braun, Lilian Jackson |
| • | Brett, Simon |
| • | Cannell, Dorothy |
| • | Davidson, Dianne Mott |
| • | Evanovich, Janet |
| • | Friedman, Kinky |
| • | Gash, Jonathan |
| • | George, Anne |
| • | Gilman, Dorothy |
| • | Hart, Carolyn |
| • | Hess, Joan |
| • | Hiaasen, Carl |
| • | Kaminsky, Stuart |
| • | Keating, H. R. F. |
| • | MacLeod, Charlotte |
| • | Myers, Tamar |
| • | O'Kane, Leslie |
| • | Peters, Elizabeth |
| • | Sanders, Lawrence
Archy McNally series |
| • | Trocheck, Kathy Hogan |
| • | Westlake, Donald E. |