- Mass Market Paperback
- Publisher: Ballantine Books (Mm); Reprint edition (Aug 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 034536158X
- ISBN-13: 978-0345361585
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,308,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This book is wonderful."--"Mystery News"
"Hess's books are funny, acerbic, touching, terrific."--Elizabeth Peters
"Witty, ironic, and biting...Joan Hess has an unerring comedic instinct."--"Bookpage"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Hess's books are funny, acerbic, touching, terrific."--Elizabeth Peters
"Witty, ironic, and biting...Joan Hess has an unerring comedic instinct."--"Bookpage"
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Claire Malloy is back. And this time she is the reluctant director of the Miss Thurberfest beauty pagent in Farberville. She's being driven to distraction by the usual baton twirlers, off-key singers, lead-foot dancers and town hysteria, so she's hardly prepared when a sandbag crashes onstage barely missing the queen of the pagent, and a bullet pierces her open convertible. Murder is not far behind--and that starts Claire poking around where somebody doesn't want her to be--until she comes uncomfortably close to joining Farberville's recently deceased chilling out in the town morgue....
"Wonderful."
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"Wonderful."
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Joan Hess captured a new and devoted reader with her mystery, A Really Cute Corpse. Using Claire Malloy, an appealing female investigator who is both wise and witty, Hess side-steps blood and violence and focuses on character developement and humor--attractive components to female readers of any age.
A consumate Dorothy Gilman fan (author of the Mrs. Pollifax series and other delightful books) I now search the H authors on each trip to the library--hoping to find a new Joan Hess book on the shelf.
Hess has not created a leading character as lady-like as Mrs. Marple, nor as totally charming as Emily Pollifax, but certainly her women are emotionally strong, mentally awesome, and career-wise down-to-earth, as women of the 90's must be.
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Fans of Joan Hess won't be disappointed with this one.The fun starts when Claire Malloy gets conned into directing the Miss Thurberfest pageant and the reigning beauty queen, Cyndi, turns up dead? Whodunnit?? There are plenty of suspects...the slick and slimy senator Stevenson...Arnie, the drunken chauffeur..or possibly Eunice,Cyndi's "trainer" (She was once Miss Cherry Tomato)Claire solves the mystery with just a little help (or is it hindrance?) from boyfriend Peter Rosen and
daughter Caron...an enjoyable book!
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
A really riotous book!
16 July 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Fans of Joan Hess won't be disappointed with this one.The fun starts when Claire Malloy gets conned into directing the Miss Thurberfest pageant and the reigning beauty queen, Cyndi, turns up dead? Whodunnit?? There are plenty of suspects...the slick and slimy senator Stevenson...Arnie, the drunken chauffeur..or possibly Eunice,Cyndi's "trainer" (She was once Miss Cherry Tomato)Claire solves the mystery with just a little help (or is it hindrance?) from boyfriend Peter Rosen and
daughter Caron...an enjoyable book!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Joan Hess captured a new and devoted reader.
6 Mar 1999
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Joan Hess captured a new and devoted reader with her mystery, A Really Cute Corpse. Using Claire Malloy, an appealing female investigator who is both wise and witty, Hess side-steps blood and violence and focuses on character developement and humor--attractive components to female readers of any age.
A consumate Dorothy Gilman fan (author of the Mrs. Pollifax series and other delightful books) I now search the H authors on each trip to the library--hoping to find a new Joan Hess book on the shelf.
Hess has not created a leading character as lady-like as Mrs. Marple, nor as totally charming as Emily Pollifax, but certainly her women are emotionally strong, mentally awesome, and career-wise down-to-earth, as women of the 90's must be.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
I love Joan Hess
12 Mar 2004
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This was the first Joan Hess book that I read. I picked it up by chance at the library. I am now totally hooked on her books. I love the Maggody series as well as this one. This book is entertaining and funny. It introduces some charecters that are important to the series down the road. It also was extremely funny. This particular book in the series allows you to really begin to identify with her charecter. Though not her best book,( I liked A Conventional Corpse best) still a strong book by a great author.
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