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Delilah Dickinson Literary Tour
Mysteries
"The man who doesn't read
good books has no advantage over the man who can't
read them." —Mark Twain
"A man's got to take a lot
of punishment to write a really funny book."
—Ernest Hemingway
 FOR WHOM THE FUNERAL BELL TOLLS
(Fourth Literary Tour
Mystery)
February 29, 2012 by The Book Place
Trade Paperback/EBook
Delilah takes a tour group
to Key West, Florida, to visit the house where Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the
Thirties, along with all the tropical attractions that Key West has to offer. Key West is a funky but beautiful place, of course,
but then death intrudes when one of the tourists appears to commit suicide by killing
himself with a shotgun in what seems to be an attempt to recreate Hemingway’s
suicide. Naturally, though, the
“suicide” turns out to be murder, and once more Delilah finds herself trying to
find a killer. Nazi spies? U-boats run aground
on Caribbean islands? Buried treasure? Modern-day pirates and drug smugglers? Delilah will have her hands full sorting out this
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 KILLER ON A HOT TIN ROOF
(Third Literary Tour
Mystery)
November 30, 2010 by
Kensington
Hardcover 304 pages
Isbn: 0758225709
(Isbn13: 9780758225702)
Because of her friendship with Professor Will
Burke, Delilah becomes involved with arranging a tour for people who want to attend the
Tennessee Williams Literary Festival held every year in New Orleans. She figures
that a group of English professors and their spouses will be a low-key, intelligent, and,
well, professorial bunch. Unlike some of her trouble-plagued tours, she expects this
one to go smoothly.
Which, of course, she realizes later, is a sure-fire way
to jinx things. |
HUCKLEBERRY FINISHED
Kensington (Hardback)
October 27, 2009
ISBN- 978-0758225689
Mass Market
Paperback
Nov. 2010
Set aboard a Mark Twain-themed cruise on the
not-so-peaceful Mississippi, Washburn's snappy second mystery to feature literary travel
agent Delilah Dickinson (after 2008's Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead) shows how much mischief a tour group can get into
while confined to a moving paddle wheeler. When one of Delilah's charges, Ben Webster,
causes a scene in the casino, the captain calls Delilah on the carpet. Ben later vanishes
only to reappear as a corpse. Meanwhile, a charming onboard Mark Twain impersonator, Mark
Lansing, takes a shine to Delilah, but turns out to have more than one identity to hide.
And Mark isn't alone in harboring secrets, as one teary-eyed tour group member confides
that a riverboat employee was murdered precisely one year earlier on the same tract of
waterway. Delilah saves more than the day as Washburn smoothly infuses this cozy with
hints of romance and humor as well as glimpses of Twain sights in today's Hannibal, Mo (Publishers
Weekly Nov. 2009) |
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FRANKLY MY DEAR,
I'M DEAD
Kensington
(Hardback)
October 28, 2008
ISBN-10: 0758225660
ISBN-13: 978-0758225665
Mass Market
Paperback
October 6, 2009
No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson opens
her own literary travel agency in Atlanta after her divorce. But during her first group's
tour of an old plantation modeled after Tara from Gone With the Wind, she finds herself in
the middle of a murder mystery-and everyone knows death is not so good for business. So,
with God as her witness, Delilah vows to find the killer.
With all the drama of Margaret Mitchell's epic story
suddenly coming to alarming life, Delilah's only chance to head off a not-so-Civil War is
to track down and confront the deranged murderer. But she must move quickly and very
quietly, or risk becoming the next victim of a killer-who frankly doesn't give a damn. |
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