April 2018 Book Report

Adrift (2017) by Beth Adams

Martha’s Vineyard mystery. Priscilla helps the Coast Guard solve the mystery of the trashed houseboat set adrift. The owner and his dog have gone missing. She also helps Captain Gerald make a quilt for his pregnant daughter out of the baby clothes his daughter wore.

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Maiden of the Mist (2017) by Nancy Mehl

Martha’s Vineyard mystery. Priscilla is “haunted” by the Weeping Woman, the supposed ghost of the wife of a sailor lost at sea. A developer wants to buy Priscilla’s property to make into a B&B, and is very pushy about it.

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The Brain Machine (1959) by George O. Smith

5-year-old James Holden has a superior intellect, thanks to his parent’s brain machine. His supposed loving godfather kills the parents to become the guardian of James and get control of the machine. James destroys the machine to keep it from being used. He escapes from his guardian and hides out for several years building another machine.

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The Tea Will Tell (2017) by Elizabeth Ludwig

Tea Room mystery. Political intrigue regarding some valuable stolen Czech stamps. Bob takes a job in another state and says goodbye to Jan, since she doesn’t want to move. Elaine realizes that she loves Nathan and is finally able to tell him so.

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The Case of the Lazy Lover (1947) by Erle Stanley Gardner

A Perry Mason mystery. Mr. Allred wanted to make it look like his step-daughter killed his partner Mr. Fleetwood. When it’s Mr. Allred who ends up murdered, suspicion falls on Allred’s wife AND Mr. Fleetwood, who wasn’t dead after all. The dog’s paw prints showed the truth.

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The Case of the Fan Dancer’s Horse (1947)

A Perry Mason mystery. Who is the real fan dancer named Lois Felton? There seems to be two of them. Where is the horse? Who killed John Callender, the estranged husband of the real Lois? Everybody is lying, but they can’t fool Perry Mason.