Not a Creature Was Stirring (The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries Book 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (614 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00BERBN5Y |
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| Number of Pages | : | 503 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Four Stars" according to HerbieZ. My wife enjoyed it but I have not yet read it.. Well Written, But Flawed "Not A Creature Was Stirring", by Jane Haddam (copyright in the name "Orania Papazoglou")is the first book in her Gregor Demarkian series. I had previously read "Hardscrabble Road", which is well down the line, and which I enjoyed a lot.Demarkian is introduced as the recently retired former head of the Behavioral Sciences Department of the FBI, who . Not a Creature was Stirring S Riaz I am absolutely delighted to see that Jane Haddam has finally arrived on kindle! This novel, "Not a Creature was Stirring", is the very first in her long-running Gregor Demarkian series, which I read when first published in 1990 and it remains one of my favourites. When we meet Gregor Demarkian he is a fifty five year old man, retired after twenty y
Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. This Christmas, they have money in their bank accounts, crime in their blood, and murder on their minds. Gregor Demarkian is their reluctant guest. The current Hannafords are a clan of embezzlers, gamblers, and fantasy novelists. Demarkain arrives just in time to find his host bludgeoned to death in his study and his investigation will lead him to the Hannafords, a family of cold-blooded killers.. A former FBI agent who quit the agency after his wife’s death, he is invited by the Hannaford patriarch to come for dinner at the family mansion. Edgar Award Finalist: On the Philadelphia Main Line, a family of crooks plots a blue-blooded murder. The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron
Gregor has never met wealthy eccentric Robert Hannaford but has ample incentive (an offer of $100,000 for Gregor's church) to join Christmas Eve dinner at the Hannaford mansion. Robert had regarded his children as "dangerous idiots," but which one might be dangerous enough to commit murder: Myra and Bobby, who are picking up spare cash through insider trading at Hannaford Financial; Teddy, about to be fired from his college teaching post for plagiarism and sexual harassment; this is correct/pk Bennis, the fantasy writer; Chris, w