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    Christietown: A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery, and Agatha Christie
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    Christietown: A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery, and Agatha Christie
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    Christietown: A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery, and Agatha Christie

    By Susan Kandel

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    A new suspense-themed housing tract on the edge of the Mojave Desert is about to open, and who better to help promote the Cotswold-cozy development than mystery biographer extraordinaire Cece Caruso? For the grand opening weekend, Cece is staging a play featuring the beloved sleuth Miss Marple. Of course, everything goes wrong, including a leading lady who ends up dead.

    All is not well in Christietown; its secrets are as complicated as the truth behind Agatha Christie's real-life disappearance. The developer, an Englishman who claims to be Dame Agatha's descendent, has ruthless investors breathing down his neck. Meanwhile, Cece's got a wedding to plan, a baby shower to give, and an ex-husband who shows up on her doorstep with his fiancée and future mother-in-law. And when another body surfaces, the intrepid amateur sleuth knows she must play the famed detective for real—or suffer the same mysterious fate.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061870095
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    Christietown: A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery, and Agatha Christie
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    Susan Kandel

    Susan Kandel is a former art critic for the Los Angeles Times. She has taught at New York University and UCLA, and served as editor of the international journal artext. She lives in West Hollywood, California, with her husband, two daughters, and dog.

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    • 4/5
      Christietown was a good read. The characters were all enjoyable and the mystery wasn’t easy to solve. It had good references to Agatha Christie, vintage clothing and West Hollywood.
    • 4/5
      Wish this series wasn't about to end.