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Silent Night Violent Night:
a Cory Goodwin Mystery
Cory Goodwin and Lilah Darnell were rebels in college. Now Cory’s a Boston journalist and Lilah’s the trophy wife of publisher Bruce Easton. At his posh Christmas party, Cory spots a scoop: Harvard biologist Henry Howrigan, rumored focus of a brewing conflict – but with whom? Will Olive Chute lure him away to run Chute Labs? Will rising star Jeff Abels edge him out? Is Jeff sleeping with Bruce’s secretary? Is Bruce sleeping with Henry’s editor, Melinda Doerr? A blizzard strands the party overnight – including the drunk and uninvited Tony Cyr, Melinda’s ex-husband and Bruce’s ex-partner. When a string of nasty pranks turns fatal, Cory wonders: Is Tony the culprit, or her only ally to trap the killer?

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Edward Gorey Plays Cape Cod:
Puppets, People, Places, & Plots
How to classify the extraordinary Edward Gorey?
Artist? Writer? Dark humorist? What about Dramatist?
It was in theatre that Gorey’s artistic career started and ended. After his Tony Award for Frank Langella’s Dracula, he left New York for Cape Cod. From Woods Hole to Provincetown, Gorey wrote, designed, and directed a scintillating set of “entertainments” starring local actors and his own troupe of handmade puppets.  Now Gorey’s friend and neighbor Carol Verburg tells how he did it – from Flapping Ankles and “The Helpless Doorknob” to “Horror at Hamstrung Hall” and Moderate Seaweed.

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Croaked: an Edgar Rowdey Cape Cod Mystery
Cape Cod!   To Lydia Vivaldi, it looks like sanctuary – until she learns her one friend in Quansett is dead. How could a skilled carpenter fall off a ladder at a film shoot? When Lydia lands a cooking job at Leo’s Back End, her questions are stonewalled by the flirtatious filmmaker and resented by the police. Only Edgar Rowdey, famous local author of creepy little books, shares Lydia’s doubts about the “accident.” Can this unlikely pair of detectives find out what really happened before it happens again?