Rosalie Stafford,
founding publisher of
Web Mystery Magazine,
holds degrees in
history of
art & architecture,
in folklore, and
in literature
(CV).

When not
writing or teaching writing,
her pastimes include
growing roses,
textile arts, &
actively working to
preserve our
American
heritage of freedom.

Wielding a scathing pen,
with mordant humor and
pointed satire,
she cheerfully pokes holes
in political-correctness.


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Crime Times Two
Friday's Child &
The Five Diamonds
— and —
Saturday's Child &
The Sad King of Clubs
to be released
February, 2010
$23.95

Friday's Child &
The Five Diamonds
is no longer available individually

 

... ...    

Whodunnits
offering uproarious comedy and
old-fashioned Golden Age tight-knit plotting: an engaging and very rare combination.
Three Flora & Shamus Mystery Novels in
Two Large Print volumes
Thursday's Child & The Queen of Swords  (432 pages)
Crime Times Two (693 pages)
— containing—
Friday's Child & The Five Diamonds  (329 pages)
— and —
Saturday's Child & The Sad King of Clubs   (333 pages)
   
 "Thursday's child has far to go ..."  
Thursday's Child &
The Queen of Swords
— In her search for a recherché thesis topic which will help her along her career path to a tenured position as academic folklorist, naive Flora Dimopoulus takes a job as a telephone psychic.  Occupational folklore abounds at the psychic hotline and, using the academic tools she has been taught such as non-judgementalism, moral relativism, and celebration of diversity, Flora tries to make sense of the nutty worldview of her speed-freak workmates.  But the most pressing question turns out to be: could a telephone psychic really discover the identity of a call-girl's killer?
This darkly comic mystery examining San Diego's
meth-fueled sex-for-hire underworld introduces
naive folklorist Flora Dimopoulus,
private investigator Shamus Fitzmorris,
& the redoubtable defense attorney MaryJo Clark.
(432 pages, $19.00)
 

Crime Times Two:
Friday's Child & The Five Diamonds
and
Saturday's Child & The Sad King of Club
 

 "Friday's child is loving and giving ...
 
Friday's Child &
The Five Diamonds
— Flora Dimopoulus is offered an exciting folklorist-in-residence position at San Diego's historic Brick Row, whose mansions make up the ten diamonds in the crown of local Victorian architecture.  There she discovers that frail and elderly owners of these Victorian mansions are dying at a statistically-improbable rate.  Could red-headed Marva Jankowsky, abrasive historic-preservationist who snatches up the precipitously-vacated Victorians for restoration and gentrification, be responsible?  Or is someone else at work here, with motives inscrutably obscure?
In this light-hearted romp set in
San Diego's historic Brick Row,
Flora Dimopoulus, Shamus Fitzmorris,
& MaryJo Clark match wits with
an obsessed maniac who is either very clever
or, perhaps, simply very lucky.
(329 pages)
 
 "Saturday's child works hard for a living ..."
Saturday's Child &
The Sad King of Clubs
— Flora's Italian friend Marcantonio and her acidulous landlady Deedra are ensnared in a web of deceit entangling Ace Towing and Club King College, the casino card-dealing vocational school. 
 Flora Dimopoulus, Shamus Fitzmorris,
investigative reporter Shannon Hollister, &
psychic investigator Hope Elphinstone
attempt to unravel the tangled truth.
(333 pages)
..     .
    
Flora & Shamus
Large Print Mysteries
are available from the publisher,
Booklocker,
online,
or at your neighborhood bookstore.
         

Flora & Shamus Mysteries are published only in Large Print

 
  Author Rosalie Stafford holds degrees in literature, folklore, and art history; an adjunct instructor, she teaches writing, literature, and humanities at various colleges in San Diego.  When not teaching or writing, her pastimes include growing roses, textile arts, and actively working to preserve our American heritage of freedom.  Wielding a scathing pen, she cheerfully employs humor and satire to poke holes in political-correctness.   Connect with her on FaceBook's Rosalie Stafford, Mystery Novelist Fan Page.  

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