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"A Walker mystery". Iris Cooper, the flapper sleuth, travels to Honolulu with her aunt and a friend. There she finds herself involved in a murder investigation and a mysterious "woman in white."Tags
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Iris Cooper is traveling with her Aunt Hermione to Hawaii, where a fellow Stanford student lives. Antoinette is about to marry, but her family doesn’t know it yet, and Antoinette is worried that her fiance might change his mind if he discovers her secret: her mother, who died when she was very young, had apparently served time in prison! And now, she has received a letter purported to be from her mother, who says Antoinette’s grandparents (who raised her) lied about her death. She asks Iris to look into the matter, discreetly of course, but nothing is as it seems and soon Iris is running into one dead body after another - good thing newsman Jack Clancy has shown up too!... This is the third and last of the Iris Cooper books, and show more like the two before it, the 1920s setting, interesting mix of somewhat exotic locale and eccentric characters all serve to make it a delight; Iris herself is a great “plucky girl” type and the will-they/won’t-they relationship between Iris and Jack is deftly handled. Each of these books can be read in a day, so give them a go! Recommended. show less
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Kathrine Kristine Beck was born in Seattle, Washington, on September 22, 1950. She received a B.A. from San Francisco State University. Before becoming a full-time mystery writer, Beck wrote advertising copy and edited a trade magazine. At one point she also sold radio air time, an experience she was later to include in We Interrupt this show more Broadcast, a mystery set in a small, classical radio station. Beck's mysteries are usually written in a light-hearted vein. Her first mystery, Death in a Deck Chair, is an entertaining period piece set in the 1920s on a transatlantic ocean liner. The two main characters from that book, debutante college student Iris Cooper and brash young reporter Jack Clancy, reappear in some of her later books, including Murder in a Mummy Case and Peril Under the Palms. Another recurring character is Jane da Silva, a middle-aged widow who becomes involved with various mysteries after she inherits her uncle's estate and, along with it, his business, which was helping desperate people find a solution to their problems. Books in this series include A Hopeless Case and Amateur Night. Other books by Beck include The Revenge of Kali-Ra; Bad Neighbors; Cold Smoked; Electric City; Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men; Unwanted Attentions; Without a Trace; Death of a Prom Queen, which was written under the pseudonym Marie Oliver, and The Tell-Tale Tattoo. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original publication date
- 1989-06-01
- People/Characters
- Iris Cooper; Aunt Hermione; Jack Clancy
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
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