Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades (UK 2013) From the Publisher: Eleanor Trewynn, recently widowed, returns home from years of working overseas to retire to the cozy village of Port Maybn in Cornwall, England. Even in retirement though, she continues her charity work, leasing out the first floor of her house to a charity shop. One morning as she opens the shop, she finds both a particularly valuable donation and a corpse stuffed into the storeroom. The donation is linked to a violent robbery in London but the corpse looks nothing like the robbers being sought by the police. With the help of her niece, Detective Sergeant Megan Pencarrow, and, begrudgingly, Detective Inspector Scumble, Eleanor is determined to unscramble this confounding case of daring theft, double cross, and murder most foul. Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades. A Cornish Mystery. Constable & Robinson Crime, ISBN: 9781780336480 (June, 2013), 305 p., £7.99.
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Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades (USA 2012) From the Publisher: Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades. A Cornish Mystery. Minotaur Books, ISBN: 9781250014757 (October, 2012), 305 p., $18.99.
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Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades (USA 2009) From the Publisher: All of these factors collide when, the day after collecting donations, Eleanor and the vicar's wife find the dead body of a longhaired, scruffy-looking youth hidden in the stockroom of the charity shop. Then they discover that some donated jewelry thought to be fake is actually very real, very expensive, and the haul from a violent robbery in London. Making matters more complex, the corpse found in the storeroom is apparently not one of the robbers. Manna from Hades is a confounding case of daring theft, doublecross, and a wily older woman confronted by a case of murder most foul. Carola Dunn: Manna from Hades. A Cornish Mystery. St. Martin's Press, ISBN: 9780312379452 (March, 2009), 294 p., $24.95.
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