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Harriet Bushrow Borderville Mysteries #3
The Sensational Music Club Murder Mystery
When a cyanide-and-whiskey cocktail kills their leading chanteuse, senior members of the Borderville Music Club work together to detect the false notes of her past. Reprint.
- GenresMystery
208 pages, Paperback
First published December 1, 1994
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June 17, 2019
THE SENSATIONAL MUSIC CLUB MYSTERY, Graham Landrum, 1994
Third in the 5-book series of mysteries taking place in Borderville, a town that straddles the line between the states of Virginia and Tennessee. Monica Taybrook leaves a trail of victims wherever she goes, but she keeps on the move and it has never yet caught up to her. Until she is found dead of cyanide poisoning just before she was to host the Borderville Music Club fashion show fund raiser. There is no end of suspects to her death, not the least of which is the family of Douglass Gaulton, the elderly head of a wealthy family who, shortly before being incapacitated by a stroke, married Monica after she returned to town after a 30-year lapse. She has been selling off family assets and the only reason she has not spent all his money is because Gaulton's son has his father's power of attorney and has been keeping her on an allowance. When Douglass dies, she will get everything, including his large company, and his family, his original heirs, will get nothing. Is this why she was killed?
As usual, the story is told by all the people involved in the story, with most of the sleuthing done by old Harriet Gardner Bushrow. She may be in her nineties, but nothing much stops her, and every clue she finds she must follow to the very end. These books are very cozy, little or no violence, well-plotted, and usually end with a twist, as this one does.
Third in the 5-book series of mysteries taking place in Borderville, a town that straddles the line between the states of Virginia and Tennessee. Monica Taybrook leaves a trail of victims wherever she goes, but she keeps on the move and it has never yet caught up to her. Until she is found dead of cyanide poisoning just before she was to host the Borderville Music Club fashion show fund raiser. There is no end of suspects to her death, not the least of which is the family of Douglass Gaulton, the elderly head of a wealthy family who, shortly before being incapacitated by a stroke, married Monica after she returned to town after a 30-year lapse. She has been selling off family assets and the only reason she has not spent all his money is because Gaulton's son has his father's power of attorney and has been keeping her on an allowance. When Douglass dies, she will get everything, including his large company, and his family, his original heirs, will get nothing. Is this why she was killed?
As usual, the story is told by all the people involved in the story, with most of the sleuthing done by old Harriet Gardner Bushrow. She may be in her nineties, but nothing much stops her, and every clue she finds she must follow to the very end. These books are very cozy, little or no violence, well-plotted, and usually end with a twist, as this one does.
December 26, 2025
When the emcee of the Music Club's annual fund raiser dies suspiciously right before it starts, the club carries on, with ninety-year-old Harriet Bushow stepping in as emcee. Only afterwards do they call the police. Naturally Harriet can't help wondering what happened, and along with her friends, trying to discover the truth. Like the previous books in this series, different chapters are told from the point-of-view of different people.
June 28, 2016
Harriet Bushrod, who was 86 when this series started, is now 90, one of our older sleuths. But she's on hand when controversial Monica Gaulton is found dead just before she's supposed to emcee the music club's fashion show and fundraiser. Monica had grown up in Borderville, gone off to have a career in New York and Las Vegas, and returned to marry the richest old man in town, now incapacitated after a stroke. Many people disliked Monica, and with reason, but who would have poisoned her?
July 24, 2009
funny Marplesque mystery. 3rd in the series. book was fast-paced, good for a light entertaining afternoon.
October 17, 2014
Told from different points of view. Especially a 90 year old, Harriet Gardner Bushrow, a feisty, daring person who solves mysteries.
Good, cute.
Good, cute.
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