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Murder Steals The ScenePeace and goodwill go out the window at Tess Darcy's Community Church in Victoria Springs the minute out-of-town drama professor Sherwood Draper walks in the door. He's been asked to replace the former director of the annual Christmas pageant, and she's furious. The organist is humiliated to be replaced by taped music, and the husband of a parishioner is outraged when he finds Sherwood backstage playing love scenes with his wife.But it turns out to be curtains for the show more unpopular professor before the show begins. His corpse is found in a dressing room and there's no shortage of suspects with both motive and opportunity. Now it's up to Tess to find out if the irreverent professor has been done in by the fury of a wronged wife or by the righteous indignation of a fellow parishioner willing to commit a deadly sin on sacred grounds. show lessTags
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Lots of arguing for a Christian church plus a spineless minister. Hard to feel sorry for the death of such a womanizer personality as Sherwood Draper was. Did feel for his wife. Introduced quite a few characters in the beginning which made it confusing trying to figure out which would be important. There were several families that were less than ideal and so it was sad that what appeared to be a good family is the one so destroyed by the ending. Luke proposed to her.
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Jean Hager has written numerous novels, many under the pseudonyms Marlaine Kyle, Amanda McAllister, Sara North and Jeanne Stephens. Hager, who is one-eighth Cherokee and often explores Native American themes in her work. She received the Teepee Trophy award from the Oklahoma Writers Federation for best novel of 1977 for Terror in the Sunlight, and show more best novel of 1979 for Shadow of the Tamaracks. Her other books include A Suitable Marriage (1982), Seven Black Stones (1995), and Masked Dancers (1998). Jean Hager was born in 1932 in Maywood, Illinois. She married Kenneth C. Hager in 1950, and graduated from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma in 1969. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Last Noel
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Tess Darcy; Luke Fredrik; Sherwood Draper; Claire Chandler; Blanche Tandy; Mike Tandy (show all 7); Lily Brookside
- Important places
- Victoria Springs, Missouri, USA
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- Languages
- English
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