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Paws for Alarm (1984)

by Marian Babson

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A whisker away from death ...

A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper familyâ??and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect ... until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper.

Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting suspicious, and the house is filled with its real owner's secrets. Numerous attempts on Mr. Harper's life convince his wife that they can't pussyfoot around. They need to investigate, starting with what the mousy orange cat knows.… (more)

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The Harper family trades homes for the summer with a newly widowed woman from England. Arnold needs to do research there, and the widow wants to spend time with her sister. It’s a wonderful idea, until the murderous attempts on Arnold’s life begin. At first, the strange occurrences seem like accidents, but then other things add up and equal attempted murder. It’s a quick read, and pretty interesting. The story’s main entertaining factor, though, are the twins, Donald and Donna. Without their antics, the book would have been a little flat. ( )
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We had flown out from Logan Airport in the middle of a scorcher that showed no sign of abating.
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Originally published in Great Britain by Collins Crime, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, as Death Swap.

The adventures of the family that the Harpers switch with are chronicled in Whiskers and Smoke, also published as Trail of Ashes
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Fiction. Mystery. HTML:

A whisker away from death ...

A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper familyâ??and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the house even comes with a cat, a shy marmalade named Esmond. Everything seems purrfect ... until someone tries to kill Mr. Harper.

Now the genteel village feels sinister, the snooty next-door neighbor is acting suspicious, and the house is filled with its real owner's secrets. Numerous attempts on Mr. Harper's life convince his wife that they can't pussyfoot around. They need to investigate, starting with what the mousy orange cat knows.

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