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Carolyn G. Hart

Author of Death on Demand

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About the Author

Carolyn G. Hart is the author of eight award-winning Death on Demand mysteries and four Henrie O mysteries. The first writer to win all three major mystery awards--the Agatha, the Anthony, and the Macavity--for her novels, Hart is the former president of the organization Sisters in Crime. Hart's show more first novel in her mystery series, entitled Death on Demand, focuses on prime murder suspect Annie Laurance Darling and her attempt to clear her tarnished name. Some of the other novels in the series include Something Wicked, winner of the Agatha Award in 1988 and the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original in 1989, Design for Murder, and Honeymoon with Murder, which won the Anthony Award in 1990. Letter From Home also won the Agatha Award for Best Novel in 2003. Her latest novel is entitled, The Devereaux Legacy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Works by Carolyn G. Hart

Death on Demand (1987) 797 copies
Design for Murder (1987) 502 copies
The Christie Caper (1991) 496 copies
Honeymoon with Murder (1988) 483 copies
Southern Ghost (1992) 470 copies
Something Wicked (1988) 459 copies
A Little Class on Murder (1989) 453 copies
Yankee Doodle Dead (1998) 445 copies
Sugarplum Dead (2000) 445 copies
April Fool Dead (2002) 430 copies
Ghost at Work (2008) 415 copies
Dare to Die (2009) 402 copies
Mint Julep Murder (1995) 394 copies
Murder Walks the Plank (2004) 391 copies
White Elephant Dead (1999) 389 copies
Engaged to Die (2003) 384 copies
Dead Days of Summer (2006) 377 copies
Deadly Valentine (1990) 374 copies
Dead Man's Island (1993) 367 copies
Death of the Party (2005) 358 copies
Death Walked In (2008) 306 copies
Scandal in Fair Haven (1993) 305 copies
Death in Lovers' Lane (1997) 281 copies
Death on the River Walk (1999) 279 copies
Resort to Murder (2001) 275 copies
Set Sail for Murder (2007) 268 copies
Letter From Home (2003) 266 copies
Merry, Merry Ghost (2009) 262 copies
Death in Paradise (1991) 249 copies
Laughed 'Til He Died (2010) 240 copies
Dead by Midnight (2011) 220 copies
Death Comes Silently (2012) 199 copies
Ghost in Trouble (2010) 199 copies
What the Cat Saw (2012) 174 copies
Death at the Door (2014) 151 copies
Dead, White, and Blue (2013) 148 copies
Don't Go Home (2015) 137 copies
Ghost Gone Wild (2013) 110 copies
Walking on My Grave (2017) 93 copies
Ghost Wanted (1605) 92 copies
Ghost to the Rescue (1753) 80 copies
Ghost Times Two (2016) 77 copies
Ghost on the Case (2017) 54 copies
Crimes of the Heart (1995) 52 copies
Cry in the Night (2012) 36 copies
The Devereaux Legacy (1986) 33 copies
Skulduggery (2000) 32 copies
Love and Death (2000) — Editor; Contributor — 31 copies
From the Queen (2015) 30 copies
Ghost Ups Her Game (2020) 30 copies
Escape from Paris (1983) 26 copies
Castle Rock (2000) 19 copies
The Rich Die Young (2000) 17 copies
Ghost Blows a Kiss (2021) 16 copies
A Settling of Accounts (1976) 16 copies
Death by Surprise (1983) 16 copies
Brave Hearts (1987) 13 copies
Flee from the Past (1975) 12 copies
Dangerous Summer (1968) 10 copies
Rendezvous in Veracruz (2012) 8 copies
Crime on Her Mind (1999) 7 copies
Cliff's Edge (2014) 4 copies
Danger: High Explosives! (1972) 3 copies
High Stakes (2015) 2 copies
No title 1 copy
No Easy Answers (2013) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Sign of the Twisted Candles (1933) — Introduction, some editions — 2,633 copies
The Red Box (1937) — Introduction, some editions — 800 copies
The Floating Admiral (1931) — Cover artist, some editions — 799 copies
Crimes by Moonlight: Mysteries from the Dark Side (2010) — Contributor — 323 copies
A Woman's Eye (1991) — Contributor — 272 copies
Miss Pinkerton (1932) — Introduction, some editions — 239 copies
Two of the Deadliest (2009) — Contributor — 156 copies
Motherhood Is Murder (2003) — Contributor, some editions — 109 copies
Sisters in Crime 2 (1990) — Contributor — 100 copies
The Best of Sisters in Crime (1997) — Contributor — 92 copies
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Contributor — 79 copies
Deadly Anniversaries (2020) — Contributor — 53 copies
Murder on Route 66 (1998) — Contributor — 39 copies
Malice Domestic 10 (2001) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Sunken Sailor (2004) — Contributor — 31 copies
Deadly Allies II (1994) — Contributor — 26 copies
Partners in Crime (1994) — Contributor — 24 copies
Crème de la Crime (2000) — Contributor — 23 copies
Mysterious Writers: The Many Facets of Mystery Writing (2010) — Contributor — 9 copies
BLACK ICE Number 9: Ice Picks: Original Women (1992) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Carolyn Hart's Newest: Disappointing in Cozy Mysteries (November 2008)

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Heartwarming holiday tale with a couple of murders being solved with the help of a ghost.
 
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leslie.98 | 12 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |
I really enjoyed Dead Man's Island by Carolyn G. Hart. If you have read all of Agatha Christie's book, you will see that it is a variation of And Then There Were None. What attracted me to this book was a cover that featured a hurricane raging against a mansion. The idea of a hurricane tearing apart the mansion did add plenty of drama to the murder mystery.

Also because I am older, I am drawn to older women sleuths.I hope to buy more of this entertaining series. It is the first of seven in this series and I have already added the second one to my wish list.

Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins has been a news reporter for five decades, she decided to retire and write crime fiction. Athletic and with an agile mind, she has covered a myriad of diasters and murders. Receiving a phone call from an old flame from about four decades ago, she reluctantly agrees to the plea for help from Chase Prescott, the head of a news empire. An attempt on his life has been made previously and he has drawn up a list of possible suspects. Henrietta will be joining the suspects in his mansion on his private island.

Besides the excellently crafted mystery, Henrietta entertained me with appropiately related trivia which prompted frequent lookups on the Internet. This is a thinking woman's mystery.
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Carolee888 | 3 other reviews | Apr 11, 2023 |
fast paced thriller set mostly in Mexico, where an Egyptologist from her museum is sent to return a valuable Aztec manuscript to its owners, but then the bad guys turn up
 
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nancynova | 1 other review | Feb 28, 2023 |
DNF

After 40 minutes, I simply couldn’t take any more. In the first 40 minutes, there were two massive listings of mystery writers. Each one no less than ten names. This followed on the heels of a massive info-dump, at the end of which, I couldn’t remember any of the introduced characters. Finally, in the last ten minutes, I was treated to an exhaustive description of one person, practically down to the size of pores on her nose.

I nearly fell asleep listening to this and I was cooking at the time.… (more)
 
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