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Loading... Murder Goes Mumming (The Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries) (original 1981; edition 2012)by Charlotte MacLeod
Work InformationMurder Goes Mumming by Alisa Craig (1981)
   Christmas Reading (53) No current Talk conversations about this book.  Kindleifier | Feb 25, 2024 |    ) SusanKrzywicki | Jun 10, 2022 | It is the 2nd in a series. I haven't read the 1st one yet, but I would like too. Published in 1981 Janet works as a typist in the Secretarial pool. So this was before Microsoft took over and offices still had people actually using type writers. (  ) nx74defiant | Sep 1, 2017 | This is the second in the Madoc and Janet Rhys series by this author (a pseudonym for Charlotte Macleod). They get engaged at the start of the book and married at the end. While they are celebrating their engagement with Madoc's mother, a Fredericton arts connoisseur (and Janet's employer) comes over to the table to greet Lady Rhys. It is only a few days before Christmas and when he learns that Madoc and Janet are going to be alone for the holidays he invites them to the family home, Graylings, in the north of New Brunswick. Graylings is a large and unmodernized house with all the requisite secret passages and doorways for a murder mystery. The family includes the Squire, his mother-in-law, four grown children of the Squire, three grandchildren and a maiden aunt. There is also a faithful retainer, cook and other assorted help in residence. On the night Janet and Madoc arrive the mother-in-law dies and Madoc, an RCMP detective, is sure she was smothered. A huge snowstorm means that he can expect no help for some time so he, with Janet's help, must discover the murderer without falling prey themselves. Another death occurs before they can do so but, of course, the mountie gets his wo/man. There is lots of local colour and what could be more Canadian than having a Mountie as the investigator? This certainly qualifies for the challenge. (  ) gypsysmom | Aug 9, 2017 | ) raizel | Jul 5, 2015 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: Murder turns a Christmas trip into a working holiday for Mountie Madoc Rhys and his bride-to-be in this holiday whodunit from the "cozy mystery queen" (Early Bird Books). Though he may not look the part, Madoc Rhys is a Mountieā??and his keen sense of detection tells him it's time to ask Janet Wadman to marry him. They have just gotten engaged when Christmas rolls around, and Janet's boss invites them to his family estate for a last holiday fling before Janet leaves her job. After a long helicopter ride, they are at Graylings, ancestral home of the Condryckes, a family so strange that Canada's shortest Mountie fits right in. There is a psychic old woman, an erudite butler, and a family patriarch who is the spitting image of an English country squire. And when the elderly Mrs. Condrycke is found murdered, Janet will be glad she brought Madoc along. Though civilization is far away, when there is a Mountie in the house, justice is close at hand. No library descriptions found. 
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Didn't get very far with this. Every time the narrator pronounced Rhys as 'Riss' it made me want to scream. Fortunately I had not paid anything - it was included in Audible membership.