The Trouble with Harriet

Name: The Trouble with Harriet
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Dorothy Cannell
ISBN: 9781456124830

Author: Dorothy Cannell

Series: Ellie Haskell Mysteries #8

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Unabridged: 8 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/18/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten. You will relish Cannell's keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannell's uproarious series.

About Dorothy Cannell

Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England, and now lives in Belfast, Maine. Dorothy Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Betty

An ebook released of The Ellie Haskell mysteries written in the1980's. I had a problem getting into the book as I am still learning about the characters who are well developed. There are some scenes that are amusing. In this book, Ellie' father arrived for an unexpected visit. He is carrying an urn......more

Goodreads review by Mary

This was a funny story! It started out that Ellie Haskell and her husband Ben were getting ready for a vacation to France. When Ellie ran into a gypsy on the street, who told her not to go out of the Country on a trip. She got a little scared but decided it was nothing to worry about, until she got h......more

Goodreads review by Judy

This book is a fun mystery involving a quirky female protagonist, her somewhat bumbling family, a dramatic housekeeper, and a confused vicar that shows up and disappears at the strangest times. These are only a few of the interesting characters who live or just show up in a village in England where......more

Goodreads review by Nellie

This was probably not the best book to introduce myself to Cannell's writings. On the plus side, the the mystery was one of the most unusual ones I've read. I enjoyed the sheer quirkiness of it and of some of the characters. Unfortunately, that was offset by the character of Ellie's father. Even cut......more