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Fiction Women Sleuths

The Dead Don't Get Out Much

A Camilla MacPhee Mystery

by (author) Mary Jane Maffini

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Initial publish date
Nov 2005
Category
Women Sleuths, Cozy, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894917308
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $12.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781459722729
    Publish Date
    Nov 2005
    List Price
    $6.99

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Description

Remembrance Day is a proud day for Camilla MacPhee’s good friend, Mrs. Violet Parnell, one of five thousand Canadian women to go overseas during World War II. But the next day she has vanished. Camilla, with only a few letters and documents to guide her, follows her friend to Tuscany, chasing though historic towns, across high promontories and along steep mountain roads. Vanishing old partisans and Allied aircraft crash sites keep Camilla hopping as she tries to find Mrs. P. before someone with a deadly serious reason to keep the past hidden finds her first. The fifth Camilla MacPhee takes the irascible Ottawa lawyer’s adventures to an exotic new locale, with the usual murderous results.

About the author

Mary Jane Maffini is a lapsed librarian and a mystery addict. Author of six Camilla MacPhee mysteries, two Fiona Silk adventures, five Charlotte Adams books, and nearly two dozen short stories. She holds two Arthur Ellis Awards for best mystery short story, as well as the Derrick Murdoch lifetime achievement award. Speak Ill of the Dead was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel and Lament for a Lounge Lizard for best novel. She lives and plots in Ottawa.

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