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2) War and peas
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Wealthy old Auguste Caspar Snellen, the legendary Pea King, is long gone, but his greatest legacy lives on: the Snellen Museum, an institution dedicated to the glorification of local lore and legumes. But at this years annual Pea Festival, the museum sustains a terrible loss when its able, innovative director, Regina Price Palmer, is shot to death during a noisy reenactment of a Civil War battle.
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 11
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English
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Sleuth and wedding consultant Jane Jeffry of Chicago investigates the murder of a bride's dressmaker. There might be a connection to a treasure, said to be buried on the premises. The wedding was held in a former monastery.
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 1
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"When an unpopular cleaning lady is strangled to death with a vacuum cleaner cord, Jane Jeffry, a single mom with an eye for mysteries, finds time between PTA meetings and car pools to do some sleuthing."--From NoveList.
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 10
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English
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Jane Jeffry adds a murder investigation to her holiday activities when a local, muckraking reporter is murdered while trying to barge in on her neighborhood Christmas party.
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Jane Jeffry mysteries volume 13
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2002
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English
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"Homemaking" is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry, now that she's agreed to help the prosperously divorced Bitsy Burnside restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. Bitsy's decision to employ an almost all-woman crew has prompted Jane's quick-witted best bud Shelley Nowack to dub the project, "the House of Seven Mabels"--but it's also engendered some nasty ill will. And when what begins as a series of anonymous,...
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1999
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Jane Jeffry is in a mad scramble to finish her cookie baking and household chores before her teenage kids arrive home. One thing Jane isn't ready for is a surprise visit from a TV "action reporter", disguised as Santa Claus. His red-suited body slides off the neighbor's roof to land, silenced forever, on the horns of a plastic reindeer. It's no accident, and with the help of her friend Shelley, Jane finds plenty of suspects.
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