Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet (USA 2017) From the Publisher: Ellie Haskell and her husband, Ben, haven't taken a vacation in years. Now their suitcases are packed, their tickets are booked, and they're ready for a romantic getaway in France. But everything goes awry after a chain-smoking fortune teller makes a dire prediction: "Take that trip at your peril!" Those ominous words ring true when Ellie's prodigal father, Morley, suddenly appears with the remains of his ladylove, Harriet, whose untimely death in a car accident has left him bereft. But after Morley loses the urn in a bizarre series of events, Harriet's family is furious. Now a bewildered Ellie finds herself asks some probing questions: Who or what was in that urn? Could her father be a pawn in a deadly game? And what exactly is the meaning of that darn prophecy? Ellie just hopes she lives to find out whether the answers are worth the trouble. Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet. An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Random House Publishing Group, ISBN: 9780399180408 (June, 2017), eBook, 1 MB (ca. 292 p.), $7.99.
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Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet (USA 2000) From the Publisher: When Morley loses the urn in a bizarre series of events, Harriet's family is furious, and a bewildered Ellie asks some probing questions: What exactly is in that urn? Is her father a pawn in a deadly game? Is this what the gypsy had foreseen? The answers are hilariously revealed in a caper so charming it could only have come from Dorothy Cannell. Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet. An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Penguin, ISBN: 0140291822 (June, 2000), 278 p., $5.99.
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Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet (USA 1999) From the Publisher: It is her prodigal father, Morley Simons, returning after many years. Far from greeting her with a face wreathed in smiles, Morley is sobbing into a hanky. Morley comes toting the ashes of his platinum blond lady love, Harriet - a femme fatale who has become a highway fatality. He's promised to return the urn containing her mortal remains to her relatives, who duly show up to receive the unwelcome news that Harriet has been temporarily misplaced. When another accident makes Morley a murder suspect, Ellie begins to question the urn's contents and must ask herself: Is he a pawn in a deadly game? Is this what the Gypsy had foreseen? Dorothy Cannell: The Trouble with Harriet. An Ellie Haskell Mystery. Viking, ISBN: 0670886297 (May, 1999), 274 p., $21.95
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