This Old Souse : A Bed-and-Breakfast Mystery

by Mary Daheim

"A charming cozy to enjoy on a Sunday afternoon--preferably with tea and scones." - Jenny McLarin

List Price: $6.99

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Avon (August 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380815656

Book Description

A nostalgic trip back to Renie's old neighborhood wasn't meant to get B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's snooping engine revved up. But when the exotic and decrepit manse on Moonfleet Street that the cousins always thought was deserted turns out not to be, Judith figures what's wrong with giving the creaky old house a closer look? The friendly neighborhood milk man claims he's been making deliveries there for as long as he can remember. The seldom seen and rarely heard occupants, Dick and Jane Bland, and Jane's spinster sister, Sally, pay their dairy bills by putting cash in the milk box -- a curious situation to be sure, but certainly nothing sinister. At least not until Judith goes from being suspicious to being a suspect when she opens the trunk of her car and discovers a dead body ... which, when alive, was tightly wrapped up in this whole blamed Bland business.

About the Author

Seattle native Mary Richardson Daheim began reading mysteries when she was seven. She started writing them when she was eleven, but her career as a published novelist didn't begin until much later. After graduating from the University of Washington's School of Communications, Daheim worked on small-town newspapers and in corporate public relations. Her goal to write fiction remained in place, however, and she began publishing the Bed-and-Breakfast series in 1991, adding the Alpine mysteries a year later. She is married to David Daheim, and the couple lives in Seattle. They have three grown daughters -- Barbara, Katherine, and Magdalen. Daheim received the Pacific Northwest Writers Association 2000 Achievement Award "for distinguished professional achievement and for enhancing the stature of the Northwest literary community."