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The Famous DAR Murder Mystery (1992)

por Graham Landrum

Series: Borderville (1)

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The search for the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier takes a bizarre turn when four members of the Old Orchard Fort chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution stumble on a modern-day corpse. Though the sheriff dismisses the body as a transient battered in a drunken brawl, one of the ladies, organist Helen Delaporte, has other ideas. First, there are the victim's finely manicured hands...and then there is the map dropped at the scene of the crime.
Soon the D.A.R. members, including feisty, eighty-six-year-old Harriet Bushrow, are rebels with a cause, mounting an investigation of their own. Of course, when the press catches wind of it, they go to town. The coveted publicity for their chapter sets the ladies reveling...until Helen's windshield is showered with bullets...and it's clear that their new pet project could spell deadly ends for them all.
Told in the alternating voices of chapter members and other colorful characters, Graham Landrum's stunning novel is the first in a delightful series narrated by members of the community of Borderville (smack on the Virginia-Tennessee line).

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Any one who is a NSDAR Daughter must read this humorousness and charming book. I didn't stop chuckling at the cute little scenes of the Daughter who was in charge of making sure the news papers correct referenced the DAR chapter. The mystery part was also written. The story line keep me turning the pages to find out who was the one that was responsible for the murder. ( )
  SLamkin | Feb 21, 2014 |
I was in search of an [a:E. L. Larkin|5424473|E. L. Larkin|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] book at the Bookworm and didn't find one so I picked this up for a cozy mystery to read. This is the kind of book that makes me think that I could write a mystery using thinly-disguised local people as characters. Instead of casting the movie in my head with movie stars, I was picturing some of the local ladies in the roles. If the book were set here, I am absolutely positive that Dorothy Fitch Munn would have been the one to put all of the facts together and solve the murder.

In most cases I don't like books that have chapters written by different characters but, in this case, it worked and I enjoyed it.

Basically, the members of the NSDAR discover a body and realize that the death that the local sheriff has put no effort into investigating, is both a murder and solvable. Something that I liked about the book is that the author made the story fun to read without making fun of the old ladies. ( )
  R0BIN | Apr 27, 2013 |
I was in search of an [a:E. L. Larkin|5424473|E. L. Larkin|http://www.goodreads.com/assets/nophoto/nophoto-F-50x66.jpg] book at the Bookworm and didn't find one so I picked this up for a cozy mystery to read. This is the kind of book that makes me think that I could write a mystery using thinly-disguised local people as characters. Instead of casting the movie in my head with movie stars, I was picturing some of the local ladies in the roles. If the book were set here, I am absolutely positive that Dorothy Fitch Munn would have been the one to put all of the facts together and solve the murder.

In most cases I don't like books that have chapters written by different characters but, in this case, it worked and I enjoyed it.

Basically, the members of the NSDAR discover a body and realize that the death that the local sheriff has put no effort into investigating, is both a murder and solvable. Something that I liked about the book is that the author made the story fun to read without making fun of the old ladies. ( )
  R0BIN | Apr 27, 2013 |
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The search for the grave of a Revolutionary War soldier takes a bizarre turn when four members of the Old Orchard Fort chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution stumble on a modern-day corpse. Though the sheriff dismisses the body as a transient battered in a drunken brawl, one of the ladies, organist Helen Delaporte, has other ideas. First, there are the victim's finely manicured hands...and then there is the map dropped at the scene of the crime.
Soon the D.A.R. members, including feisty, eighty-six-year-old Harriet Bushrow, are rebels with a cause, mounting an investigation of their own. Of course, when the press catches wind of it, they go to town. The coveted publicity for their chapter sets the ladies reveling...until Helen's windshield is showered with bullets...and it's clear that their new pet project could spell deadly ends for them all.
Told in the alternating voices of chapter members and other colorful characters, Graham Landrum's stunning novel is the first in a delightful series narrated by members of the community of Borderville (smack on the Virginia-Tennessee line).

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