P.M. Carlson: Murder Unrenovated (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
Realtor Len Trager is anxious to sell the brownstone in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, but prospective buyers don't want to deal with Julia Northrup, who rents the basement apartment. Maggie Ryan and her husband Nick O'Connor love the property. They see though Julia's act, and they're not scared off by the corpse on the top floor.

This Mystery Company edition restores to print the fourth novel in the Maggie Ryan series, a 1989 nominee for Macavity and Anthony Awards.

"Carlson has put it all together wonderfully in this book: terrific characters, funny incidents, genuine suspense, and an absolutely right sense of period and place. If comparisons were in order, we'd say Maggie and Nick are as memorable a sleuthing team as Nick and Nora Charles or Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane - but there's no need to make comparisons. The series stands quite admirably on its own." - Tom & Enid Schantz, The Purloined Letter

P.M. Carlson: Murder Unrenovated. Maggie Ryan, 1972. The Crum Creek Press / The Mystery Company, ISBN: 9781932325287 (June, 2013), 242 p., $16.00, eBook $5.99.

P.M. Carlson: Murder Unrenovated (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
Maggie Ryan, amateur sleuth and mother-to-be, and her actor husband, Nick O'Connor, have found the upwardly mobile couple's dream: an affordabie vintage brownstone in an up-and-coming neighborhood in New York City. It's just about perfect. Except for a few minor problems.

The place is crying out for some fresh paint, and they'll have to fix the creaky staircase and the ancient dumbwaiter.

And then there's the corpse in the upstairs room...

NOMINATED FOR THE 1989 ANTHONY AND MacAVITY AWARDS FOR BEST NOVEL

P.M. Carlson: Murder Unrenovated. A Maggie Ryan Mystery. Maggie Ryan, 1972. Bantam Crime Line Book, ISBN: 0553185225 (January, 1988), 217 p., $2.25.