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Mallets Aforethought: A Home Repair Is Homicide Mystery
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Chivers Sound Library
Publication date April 30, 2004
Binding Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition Unabridged
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780792731948
ISBN-10 0792731948
Dimensions 2.50 by 5.25 by 9 in.
Weight 1.08 lbs.
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $64.95
Other format details audio
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree left her high-powered career for a dilapidated fixer-upper and the dream of a quiet existence in the quaint town of Eastport, Maine. But she found that no matter how carefully you remodel your life, murder can take up residence anywhere.

It’s Eastport’s most notorious landmark: the old Harlequin House. Named for the disgraced physician Chester Harlequin, it was used as a hideout for gunshot gangsters and their molls during Prohibition’s heyday. Now fixer-upper enthusiast Jake Tiptree and Harlequin’s only living descendant, Ellie White, are refurbishing the mansard-roofed mansion to host the local Historical Society’s upcoming gala. But when stripping down old wallpaper reveals a secret door to a room containing not one but two corpses, Jake and Ellie once again find home repair leading to homicide.

One of the bodies is a skeleton dressed in 1920s flapper chic. But the other is that of
real-estate mogul Hector Gosling, and in his pocket is a paper bearing the single word “Guilty.” The less-than-scrupulous tycoon has been poisoned, and when it’s learned that the offending substance is the poison that Ellie’s husband George has been using to kill red ants, he is immediately taken into custody. Then it develops that George had recently accused Gosling of a scheme to scam George’s vulnerable old aunt out of her life savings—and George out of his inheritance.

With George held for murder, Jake and a pregnant Ellie swing into action. In between Ellie’s Lamaze sessions, baby showers, and CPR classes taught by Jake’s ex-husband
Victor, the two amateur sleuths must sift their way through a trail of seemingly contradictory clues. Then another corpse surfaces and suddenly Jake and Ellie realize they must find this killer fast. A clever culprit is not only building an airtight case against Ellie’s husband. He—or she—is planning to nail everyone who stands in the way.

Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780553803082
 
from Bantam Dell Pub Group (March 1, 2004)
9780553803082 | details & prices | 304 pages | 6.25 × 9.20 × 1.25 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $21.95
About: Agreeing to help refurbish Harlequin House, a one-time hideout for wounded gangsters, Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree uncovers the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper, a discovery that is complicated by a new corpse sitting next to the old one.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780553585773
 
Reprint edition from Bantam Books (October 1, 2004)
9780553585773 | details & prices | 332 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $7.99
About: Agreeing to help refurbish Eastport's disreputable old Harlequin House, a one-time hideout for wounded gangsters, do-it-yourself expert Jacobia 'Jake' Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, uncover the skeleton of a notorious 1920s flapper, an unsavory discovery that is complicated by the all-too-fresh corpse sitting next to the old one.
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780792731955
 
Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (April 30, 2004)
9780792731955 | details & prices | 7.50 × 6.75 × 1.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $39.95
About: When Jacobia Jake Tiptree and her friend, Ellie White, agree to refurbish Eastport s most disreputable old dwelling, Harlequin House, pulling up the floorboards reveals something far more sinister than dry rot.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780792731948
 
The price comparison is for this edition
Unabridged edition from Chivers Sound Library (April 30, 2004)
9780792731948 | details & prices | 5.25 × 9.00 × 2.50 in. | 1.08 lbs | List price $64.95
About: Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree left her high-powered career for a dilapidated fixer-upper and the dream of a quiet existence in the quaint town of Eastport, Maine.

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