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Pennsylvania Dutch mysteries with recipes volume 1
Signet mystery volume AE8296
Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery
Signet mystery volume AE8296
Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery
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This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in the true "Amish experience," (read: doing Magdalena's chores and paying top dollar for the opportunity!). When one of her more reclusive guests takes a tumble down the PennDutch's picturesquely steep staircase and breaks his neck, the timing couldn't be worse. It's the start of hunting season – and her inn is packed...
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Magdalena Yoder, chaste and abstemious proprietor of the Pennsylvania Dutch Inn, agrees to let a Hollywood crew film at the inn -- for an exorbitant price, of course. But when the assistant director is found pinned to a barn post with a farming tool, dimwitted locak police chief, Marvin Stoltzfus fingers Magdalena as the prime suspect. Now it's time for Magdalena to use her extraordinary Amish sleuthing skills to reveal the real killer - before another...
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"Magdalena Yoder is (finally!) getting married, and nothing is going to spoil her wedding; not the man-of-her-dreams' loopy relatives, nor the twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut from her future father-in-law, which is not Mag's idea of a great wedding present. Especially when it contains a body! Of course, Magdalena recognizes the victim, who's as well-preserved as a gherkin: It's her fiance's cousin Sarah, who's been...
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When kindly Lizzie Mast, a local Amish woman-and Hernia's worst cook-is found poisoned by a bad plate of crepes, bumbling local police chief, Melvin Stoltzfus, begs Magdalena Yoder, the irrepressible owner (and sleuth extraordinaire!) of the PennDutch Inn, to help him investigate. With her bed and breakfast full of quirky guests, and her handsome new boyfriend to entertain, Magdalena isn't sure she has time for Stoltzfus's foolery. Cleverly (and frugally!)...
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Conman Clarence Webber career has been long and very lucrative-until he landed himself in Hernia's jail, and is promptly poisoned. Since Magdalena's PennDutch Inn provides all of the meals for Hernia's tiny jail, all eyes are on her. She retraces Webber's criminal path through Pennsylvania-and even Maryland! She soon discovers that he left a long list of victims, all with good reason to try to do the conman in! With the reputation of her beloved PennDutch...
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Cornelious Weaver, one of Hernia's most eligible bachelors, is due to finally tie the knot-but three days before the big wedding, he's found dead…in another woman's bed!! The scandal is better than a made-for-TV-movie-not that any of the good citizens of Hernia own a television-and the details get even more delicious: Cornelious wasn't just cheating on his bride-to-be; he was carrying on affairs all over town! When the coroner's report reveals that...
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Even though she's now married to acclaimed Manhattan doctor, Gabriel Rosen, Magdalena-still a small-town Hernia girl at heart-is delighted to be chosen as the emcee for Hernia's first annual Holstein Competition. If there's anyone who doesn't pull punches in judging cows, it's Magdalena! Plus, holding the Holstein Competition means that Magdalena's beloved bed and breakfast, the PennDutch Inn is packed with out-of-town guests, making it a real cash-cow...