Morgue Mama Mystery series by C.R. Corwin (#2-3)
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Overview: Robert C. Levandoski, pen name C.R. Corwin, was born in Ohio in 1949, graduated from Kent State University, married and had two daughters. He began his career in journalism, published his first novel in 1997. In 2004 his novel Fresh Eggs was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in 2008.
Genre: Mystery
2. Dig (2005)
Maddy Sprowls gets to The Hannawa Herald-Union right at nine. She makes her first mug of Darjeeling tea and settles down at her desk to read the obituaries. The obits are the best part of her day, she admits. But not today. First, she reads that her old college friend Gordon Sweet is dead. Then she learns he was murdered at the abandoned landfill where the eccentric archaeology professor was conducting his latest dig. And just like that, the cranky 68-year-old newspaper librarian finds herself investigating another murder. No, two murders! Gordon’s death just might be linked to the grisly bludgeoning of state wrestling champ David Delarosa 50 years earlier.
And so begins a harrowing, and hilarious, trek back to Maddy’s old beatnik days when she was a member of the Meriwether Square Baked Bean Existentialist Society. There’s a coffeehouse full of quirky suspects to consider: Poet Chick Glass, saxophonist Shaka Bop, free-thinking Effie Fredmansky, snooty Gwen Moffitt-Stumpf, and toxic waste dumper Kenneth Kingzette, just to name a few.
3. The Unvraveling of Violeta Bell (2008)
Newspaper librarian Maddy Sprowls never gives story ideas to the editors at The Hannawa Herald-Union. She prefers to stay in the morgue and do her job and hopes the editors stay in the newsroom and do theirs. Then one Saturday she sees four elderly women get out of a taxicab at a garage sale. Those women must hire that cabby every week, she figures, to drive them from garage sale to garage sale while they search for treasure. And wouldn’t that make a great feature story for the paper? Monday morning she runs straight to the newsroom with her idea. Shortly after the story runs, one of the four women is murdered—retired antique dealer Violeta Bell. Maddy wants no part of the investigation. But before she knows it, shes on another of her infamous snoopathons. And, good gravy, enjoying every minute of it.
Was Violeta Bell murdered by one of the other garage sale ladies? Former striptease artist Kay Hausenfelter perhaps? Or real estate agent Gloria McPhee? Or eccentric philanthropist Ariel Wilburger-Gowdy? Or was it Eddie French, the scruffy cabby with a police record as long as his arm? And what about Violeta’s claim that she was the rightful queen of Romania? Any truth to that?
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