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Gardening Can Be Murder
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Author : Marta McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-09-05
Gardening Can Be Murder written by Marta McDowell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-05 with Gardening categories.
This fun, engrossing book takes a look at the surprising influence that gardens and gardening have had on mystery novels and their authors. With their deadly plants, razor-sharp shears, shady corners, and ready-made burial sites, gardens make an ideal scene for the perfect murder. But the outsize influence that gardens and gardening have had on the mystery genre has been underappreciated. Now, Marta McDowell, a writer and gardener with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the genre, illuminates the many ways in which our greatest mystery writers, from Edgar Allen Poe to authors on today’s bestseller lists, have found inspiration in the sinister side of gardens. From the cozy to the hardboiled, the literary to the pulp, and the classic to the contemporary, Gardening Can Be Murder is the first book to explore the mystery genre’s many surprising horticultural connections. Meet plant-obsessed detectives and spooky groundskeeper suspects, witness toxic teas served in foul play, and tour the gardens—both real and imagined—that have been the settings for fiction’s ghastliest misdeeds. A New York Times bestselling author herself, McDowell also introduces us to some of today’s top writers who consider gardening integral to their craft, assuring that horticultural themes will remain a staple of the genre for countless twisting plots to come. “This book is dangerous. A veritable cornucopia of crime fiction and gardening lore, it faces the reader with multiple temptations—books to seek out, plants to obtain, garden tours to book.” —Vicki Lane, author of the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries
Emily Dickinson S Gardening Life
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Author : Marta McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Emily Dickinson S Gardening Life written by Marta McDowell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding of the life and work of Emily Dickinson.” —The Wall Street Journal Emily Dickinson was a keen observer of the natural world, but less well known is the fact that she was also an avid gardener—sending fresh bouquets to friends, including pressed flowers in her letters, and studying botany at Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke. At her family home, she tended both a small glass conservatory and a flower garden. In Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, award-winning author Marta McDowell explores Dickinson’s deep passion for plants and how it inspired and informed her writing. Tracing a year in the garden, the book reveals details few know about Dickinson and adds to our collective understanding of who she was as a person. By weaving together Dickinson’s poems, excerpts from letters, contemporary and historical photography, and botanical art, McDowell offers an enchanting new perspective on one of America’s most celebrated but enigmatic literary figures.
The World Of Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Author : Marta McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-09-20
The World Of Laura Ingalls Wilder written by Marta McDowell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-20 with Gardening categories.
Lushly illustrated with beloved images and quotations from the Little House series, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by New York Times bestselling author Marta McDowell, examines and celebrates Wilder’s unique relationship with the American frontier.
Unearthing The Secret Garden
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Author : Marta McDowell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2021-10-12
Unearthing The Secret Garden written by Marta McDowell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Gardening categories.
Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.
The Garden Plot
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Author : Marty Wingate
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
The Garden Plot written by Marty Wingate and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Detective and mystery stories categories.
Meet Prunella ‘Pru’ Parke, an American gardener who digs up murder and mystery wherever she goes. Dallas girl Pru’s always dreamed of living in England — a country of lush green gardens, endless drizzle and ruggedly handsome groundskeepers. She moves to London on a whim, to find that no one in the city wants to hire her. Except for wealthy Vernona Wilson, who’s quite desperate to be rid of her unsightly old potting shed. Pru dusts off her spade and gets to work, under the watchful eye of a snooping neighbor. She expects to dig up dirt. But nothing like this. An ancient Roman mosaic and a bludgeoned body. Whose secrets has she stumbled on, buried in the soil? Dishy Detective Christopher Pearse is on the case. But Pru can’t wait for him to piece it all together. Not when there’s a brutal killer out there who thinks she’s already dug much too deep . . .
Marigolds Morning Glories Murder
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Author : McKenzy M. McBreey
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2012-05-30
Marigolds Morning Glories Murder written by McKenzy M. McBreey and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-30 with Fiction categories.
Welcome to the Mountain Valley Garden Club! First line of business: find out why one of the garden clubs members is murdered at the first garden club meeting of the year. Mountain Valley is a quiet, horse friendly community, with hitching posts throughout the town, and colorful flowers woven in the towns countryside surroundings. One can stop at The Big Bean for a steaming cup of coffee, and swap gardening tips with a neighbor. One may even be sipping a latte, unknowingly chatting with a murderer, or sharing a muffin with the woman who makes it a habit of having affairs with other womens husbands. There is a good looking new police chief in town, and his first major case is to find a killer. Former police chief, Brice Johansson, has shared his suspicions with the new chief, which might be helpful in solving the homicide. Supposedly, Candace Hatcher, the town divorcee, is looking for a new husband. Can she perchance be dating the murderer? Is it even conceivable the murderer is one of the towns prominent senior citizens? Who knows what dark secrets lurk in the small town of Mountain Valley?
Mulch
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Author : Ann Ripley
language : en
Publisher: Crimeline
Release Date : 2009-10-14
Mulch written by Ann Ripley and has been published by Crimeline this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-14 with Fiction categories.
Rooting out a killer can dig you a grave... Amateur gardener and housewife Louise Eldridge has big plans for her family's new Sylvan Valley home, situated among the flower of suburban Washington, D.C., society. Some Japanese iris here, some skunk cabbage there...and her own cozy cabin for her horticultural writings. But barely has she turned the topsoil when her organic mulching unearths the unidentifiable remains of a murder victim. Suddenly her elegant garden is a crime scene blighted by garish yellow police tape. And Louise--cultivating the rich and restless wives of the neighborhood and their hothouse secrets--must find out who has gone missing. For only then can she root out a rare species of killer who could soon be digging her grave.
Summer Garden Murder
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Author : Ann Ripley
language : en
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Release Date : 2012-06-06
Summer Garden Murder written by Ann Ripley and has been published by Kensington Publishing Corp. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-06 with Fiction categories.
The star of public television's top garden show, Louise Eldridge is something of a celebrity. But when a dead body is planted in her backyard, she's in for notoriety of a different kind. . . Summer is the season for disquiet in Louise's Sylvan Valley cul de sac, and the tradition continues when an uninvited guest crashes a neighborhood soiree. Five years ago, Louise identified Peter Hoffman as the "mulch murderer." Now he's been released from a Virginia state mental institution. Leaving the party doesn't put enough distance between Louise and Hoffman, who has a thing or two to say to her—and actually has the nerve to follow her home to air his grievances. Shaken by the incident, Louise and family decide to take a little R&R at the beach in the hope that Hoffman will have moved on by the time they return. When they get back from vacation, Hoffman's moved on all right—but not in quite the way Louise had hoped. He's been missing for seven days, and Louise is the one who finds him. . .buried beneath her native azalea patch. Things go from bad to worse once the police learn that someone saw Louise planting one of the nights she was supposed to be out of town. With suspicion buzzing around her, she starts doing some snooping among her friendly—and not-so-friendly-neighbors, including high-powered attorney Mike Cunningham, who may have had a shady business deal going with Hoffman; Hilde, an apprentice gardener with something to hide; and Hoffman's own widow, whose relationship with her husband wasn't exactly a bed of roses. But before Louise can make any serious headway, another murder victim turns up—felled by a garden claw covered in Louise's fingerprints. Now, with more than just her television career in jeopardy, Louise will have to dig up some serious clues to bring a killer to light—before another person winds up as fertilizer. . .
The Earth In Her Hands
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Author : Jennifer Jewell
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-03-03
The Earth In Her Hands written by Jennifer Jewell and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-03 with Gardening categories.
The Earth in Her Hands celebrates the important contributions women make to the wide world of plants—in the fields of horticulture, environmental science, botany, floral design, farming, landscape architecture, herbalism, food justice, and more.
The Decadent Gardener
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Author : Medlar Lucan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Decadent Gardener written by Medlar Lucan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Gardening categories.
This book looks at the role in gardening played by torture, eroticism, blasphemy, the grotesque, narcotics, the artificial, and many other subjects dear to the decadent's heart.