Come Hell or Highball: A Mystery
Maia Chance
Sep 2015 · Recorded Books · Narrated by Suzy Jackson
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30-year-old society matron Lola Woodby has survived her loveless marriage with an unholy mixture of highballs, detective novels, and chocolate layer cake, until, her husband dies suddenly, leaving her his fortune.or so Lola thought. As it turns out, all she inherits from Alfie is a big pile of debt. Pretty soon, Lola and her stalwart Swedish cook, Berta, are reduced to hiding out in the secret love nest Alfie kept in New York City. But when rent comes due, Lola and Berta have no choice but to accept an offer made by one of Alfie's girls-on-the-side at his funeral: in exchange for a handsome sum of money, the girl wants Lola to retrieve a mysterious reel of film for her. It sounds like an easy enough way to earn the rent money. But Lola and Berta realize they're in way over their heads when, before they can retrieve it, the man currently in possession of the film reel is murdered, and the reel disappears. On a quest to retrieve the reel and solve the murder before the killer comes after them next, Lola and Berta find themselves navigating one wacky situation after another in high style and low company. Charming, witty, often laugh-out-loud funny, Maia Chance's Come Hell or Highball introduces a sparkling new voice in crime fiction. MAIA CHANCE was a finalist for the 2004 Romance Writers of America Golden Heart Award and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. She is writing her dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature.
About the author
Maia Chance is an American author, born in the late 1970's in Washington state. She began writing as a teenager and finished her first novel in her twenty's. She is working to complete her PhD dissertation in English Literature, focusing on 19th century New England writing. Her first novel was Snow White Red-handed. It was published in 2014, and is the first book in the Fairy Tale Fatal Mystery series. The next books in the series are Cinderella Six Feet Under, Beauty, Beast, and Belladonna, and Sleeping Beauty, Borrowed Time. Her other series include the Discreet Retrieval Agency Mystery, which has Come Hell or Highball, Teetotaled, and Gin and Panic. Her latest work is Bad Housekeeping, which is the first book the Agnes and Effie Mystery series. She wrote a standalone novel, The Trophy Wives of Alpenrose.
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