Dorothy Cannell: The Importance of Being Ernestine (USA 2003) From the Publisher: Before the two ladies can explain they are not detectives, the hawk-nosed matriarch clad in modish mourning sixty years out of date tells them a tale that goes back thirty years - to when she wrongfully dismissed her parlor maid, Flossie, who was secretly in the family way courtesy of the under gardener. Tragically, Flossie soon died of tuberculosis, while striving to support herself and her child, Ernestine - but not before vowing vengeance from beyond the grave on the rich Krumleys at Moultty Towers. Now, Krumley family members have started meeting with fatal accidents ... The curse, Lady Krumley fears, is being fulfilled. Feeling both generous and confident, Ellie and Mrs. Malloy decide they like Lady Krumley and want to take on her case. Can this newly formed but unlikely detective duo find Ernestine and prevent more Krumleys from crumbling in the churchyard without killing each other first? Dorothy Cannell: The Importance of Being Ernestine. An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0142002844 (April, 2003), 248 p., $6.99.
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Dorothy Cannell: The Importance of Being Ernestine (USA 2002) From the Publisher: Lady Krumley, a hawk-nosed matriarch clad in modish mourning sixty years out of date, tells them a tale that goes back thirty years-to when she wrongfully dismissed her parlor maid, Flossie, secretly in the family way by the undergardener. Flossie died of tuberculosis soon after childbirth while striving to support herself and her child, Ernestine-but not before vowing vengeance from beyond the grave on the rich Krumleys at Moultty Towers. Now, family members have started meeting with fatal accidents. . . . Ernestine, Lady Krumley fears, is carrying out her mother's dying curse. Can Ellie and Mrs. Malloy, the newly formed but unlikely detective duo, find Ernestine and prevent more Krumleys from crumbling in the churchyard without killing each other first? Dorothy Cannell: The Importance of Being Ernestine. An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Viking, ISBN: 0670030600 (June, 2002), 248 p., $23.95
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