Marian Babson

Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a scandalous murder trial. Cousin Chloe stands accused of stabbing her identical twin sister, Claudia, and Margot's well-to-do relatives are, understandably, a mess-that is to say, even more dysfunctional than usual. One is eating compulsively to cope with the stress; Claudia's teenage daughter is hiding out in her bedroom; the paparazzi are hounding...

Vance is an experienced female impersonator, so when his beloved twin sister, Vanessa, winds up in a coma after a suspicious fall, he has a unique way to investigate. Using her clothes and makeup-and his striking resemblance to his twin-he works his way into the remote castle of Vanessa's wealthy employer, along with a harem of other women. With help from a doctor, Vance poses as an amnesiac Vanessa and is able to fool everyone-with the exception...

Finding the shop owner dead on the floor was Cecile Savvy's first shock; finding the shop suddenly enveloped in flames was the next.

On a dare from the local boys, lonely eleven-year-old Robin sneaks into a neighbor's house to steal their pedigree cat. But he doesn't expect the terrifying scene that awaits him. After a loud dispute echoes from above-and the man of the house comes down the stairs covered in blood-Robin makes a run for it. But the killer knows someone was there, and when he talks to the police, he figures the mysterious intruder is the perfect person to pin the murder...

Shakespearean actor Winstanley Fortescue is known as a hound dog when it comes to the ladies. But when someone pushes him off a ladder, he falls on the theater's resident cat-and somehow the two of them wind up trading bodies. It takes a while to get used to living on four legs, but it's the perfect way for Winstanley to sneak around while he tries to uncover the attempted murderer, in this fun mystery from an Agatha Award–winning author.

As the Christmas holidays begin at Maude Daneson's rooming house, unsuspecting lodgers receive a most unwelcome present from the person responsible for a series of senseless and bizarre murders, a killer much more cunning than they had suspected.

The Perkins and Tate Public Relations firm becomes involved in the murder case of a society dentist in London.

When silent film star Evangeline Sinclair and ex-hoofer Trixie Dolan attend a film retrospective in London, they expect to be the centers of attention, but are instead upstaged by a series of grisly murders based on the movies.

"Karen is face to face with danger after learning that her husband, the chairman of Harding Handicrafts, disappeared with a large sum of money and his beautiful secretary."--Amazon.com.