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Minnesota's Answer to Agatha
Christie!
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Now Back In Print
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THE CRYING
SISTERS
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by Mabel Seeley
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New Title!
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket, 312 pages
9
1/2" x 6 1/4 "
ISBN
1-890434-26-4
$24.00
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MABEL SEELEY wrote seven mysteries between 1938 and 1954, all of them
wonderful period pieces set in the Midwest. Her books received rave reviews when
they were first published in New York, and they remain every bit as good today.
In The Crying Sisters, Seeley sets the atmosphere and
characters for this compelling story in her opening words: "I still pinch
myself and say it isn’t true. I still wake at night to reach for the tangible
proof within touch of my hand. Because what happened to me last August went so
far outside anything I’d known all the rest of my life that even while it was
going on I often thought I must be imagining."
"Beautifully told by a writer who is expert at finding horror in
commonplace settings. Recommended for highest honors." —The New Yorker
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THE WHISTLING SHADOW |
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by Mabel Seeley |
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HARDCOVER EDITION
With dustjacket, 216 pages
9 1/2" x 6 1/4"
ISBN 1-890434-16-7
$24.00
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Minnesota mystery
writer Mabel Seeley (1903-1991) was
enormously popular from the late 1930s through the 1950s. Her mystery
novels were published by Doubleday in New York and distributed nationally
by The Crime Club. In The Whistling Shadow, heroine Gail Kiskadden
finds herself at the very center of a vortex of violence and impending
disaster in her own Lake of the Isles neighborhood in Minneapolis.
Recommended for mystery lovers of all ages including young adults.
All of our beautiful Afton reprint editions of Mabel
Seeley’s classic mysteries feature new cover paintings by St. Paul
artist Paul S. Kramer.
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THE CHUCKLING FINGERS
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by Mabel Seeley
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HARDCOVER
EDITION
With dustjacket, 312 pages
9 1/2" x 6 1/4"
ISBN 1-890434-08-6
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Promoted as the mystery of
the year in 1940 The Chuckling Fingers is set
at a summer estate on Lake Superior north of Grand Marais. The
heroine is Ann Gay, a stenographer in an insurance office, who rushes to
the North Shore after learning that her beloved cousin Jacqueline, newly
married to a lumbering heir, may be in danger:
"Other people may think they’d like to live their lives over,
but not me—not if this last week is going to be in it. Out of what has
just happened at the Fingers both Jacqueline and I got something worth
keeping, but Heaven defend me from ever again having to stand helplessly
by while it becomes more and more apparent to almost everyone but me that
the person I love most in the world is murderously insane."
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THE BECKONING DOOR |
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by Mabel Seeley |
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HARDCOVER EDITION
With dustjacket, 220 pages
9 1/2" x 6 1/4"
ISBN 1-890434-07-8
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Mabel Seeley is at her
best in this 1950 mystery, set in a mid-Minnesota resort community. The
heroine is quiet Cathy Kingman, who resents the circumstances that have
kept her in the small town of Long Meadow. Her hard feelings extend to her
stylish cousin Sylvia who, having inherited the estate that Cathy wanted,
returns to Long Meadow and callously breaks up Cathy’s romance.
Then Sylvia hints that she could open the door to the outside world,
and Cathy thinks the moment of escape has come. But—a fortuneteller
prophesies that Sylvia will not live long, and the prophecy comes
violently true. The town, knowing the jealousy that existed between the
cousins jumps to a quick and easy accusation. Cathy knows that to prove
her innocence, even to those who love her best, she must find the
murderer.
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