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An affair between the help and a club member is always looked at with suspicion at the prestigious Penguin Beach Club in Santa Barbara but when both go missing it's an outrage. Enter Tom Aragon, the droll Mexican-American lawyer turned private investigator, who finds himself navigating a viper's nest of California elites in his quest for the truth. Miranda Shaw and Grady Keaton should have made for a run-of-the-mill scandal at the prestigious Penguin Beach Club. Shaw, a recently widowed show more woman of fifty, was seen leaving the club with Keaton, a ruggedly handsome lifeguard half her age. When Miranda and Keaton go missing, the widower's lawyer sends his handiest man to find out where they've wandered off to. The clues come one stranger than the next for Tom Aragon in this often-hilarious novel of folly among the California elite. show lessTags
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Margaret Millar (1915-1994) was horn in Ontario, Canada and was educated at Kitchener-Waterloo Collegiate Institute and the University of Toronto, majoring in classics. In 1938 she married Kenneth Millar (who wrote under the name Ross Macdonald). She published her first novel, The Invisible Worm, in 1941 and she worked as a screenwriter for Warner show more Brothers. It was her 1955 novel, Beast in View, that won Millar the coveted Edgarsup/sup Award for Best Novel and the boob was later adapted for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour. She was active in the environmental conservation movement in California in the 1960s and was named a Woman of the Year by the Los Angeles Times in 1965, and in 1983 she became a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. show less
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- Canonical title*
- Der Mord von Miranda
- Original title
- The Murder of Miranda
- Original publication date
- 1979
- People/Characters
- Tom Aragon; Miranda Shaw; Grady Keaton; Frederic Quinn; Charles Van Eyck; Admiral Cooper Young (show all 11); Iris Van Eyck Young; Cordelia Young; Juliet Young; Walter Henderson; Ellen
- Important places
- Penguin Beach Club, California, USA; Santa Felicia, California, USA
- Dedication
- To my grandson, Jim Pagnusat
- First words
- Mr. Van Eyck had a great deal of money which he didn't want to spend, and a great deal of time which he didn't know how to spend.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Dear me," he thought with a little twinge of surprise. "I believe I've just murdered Miranda."
- Original language*
- Amerikanisch
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