She soon realizes that there is someone out there willing to kill to keep the play out of the hands of her new employer. Then Jordan learns her predecessor was killed while looking for this play. Jordan knows she can do this job and convinces Miss Van Alst to give her a try. The job is tracking down a play rumored to have been written by Agatha Christie. Not the most friendly person and most of the town hates her, but she has this wonderful library. Thrilled to get an interview, the job sounds perfect and even includes room and board. She answers a blind ad and crosses her fingers. Thank to her ex she is deep in debt and the grad school loans are hanging over her head. She has moved back to Harrison Falls and in with her wonderful not so law abiding uncles. Jordan Bingham needs a job and a new place to live. During those eleven days, did she have time to write a play? You Could Win!!! Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf 3 Y.In 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared-making headlines across the world-only to show up eleven days later at a spa under an assumed name.My Life in a Nutshell: A Novel by Tanya J.Discover the Secret! Monogram Murders Soon to be.The Monogram Murders - Hangout with author Sophie.The Christie Curse by Victoria Abbott (book review).
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote.
#Victoria abbott book collector mystery series series
The Sayers Swindle is the second book in the series and I will be searching it out. The Christie Curse title caught my eye in the bookstore and the writing begs me to come back for more. The characterization was plausible, scenarios wrought with suspense, and the plot twisted just enough to put me off.įor me this was a timely read as Sophie Hannah just released The Monogram Murders, a Hercule Poirot mystery and the Christie name is all the buzz right now.
Suspicion had been cast on a few others who had good cause or were just shady enough to be possible. Like Jordan, I had brushed off the real assailant until it was too late. It is an excellent example of a cozy mystery with enough suspects to keep you guessing. The Christie Curse is the first in the new Book Collector series. Victoria Abbot is actually a mother and daughter writing duo. The search has become a matter of life and death. Everyone is suspicious to Jordan and it is uncertain who her enemies really are.
Everywhere Jordan turns, Officer Smiley is not far behind. Two attempts are made on a possible source's life and a woman is beaten. Jordan is hired to find it and her investigations soon become dangerous to anyone associated with her search. This is the basis for the mystery The Christie Curse. No one knew for sure but conjecture would have it she was writing. Perhaps she spent her time at a spa? Or, perhaps she spent her time in seclusion, writing a play. It's a rumour based upon the disappearance of mystery author Agatha Christie for a short period in 1926 when her first marriage ended. This only makes Jordan more cautious as she investigates the whereabouts of a play that no one can ascertain even exists. Jordan's predecessor, while in New York seeking information about the possibility of a never before published Christie play, was pushed to his death in the subway. It would seem the infamous play, it's very being in doubt, is a curse upon whomever seeks it.
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