- Paperback
- Publisher: Berkley Pub Group (Mm) (September 1994)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 042514352X
- ISBN-13: 978-0425143520
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 9.1 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #716,763 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cecily Sinclair, owner of the Pennyfoot Hotel, is looking forward to the annual May Day festivities to liven up the off-season, but the celebration turns lethal when one of the hotel guests is found strangled with a maypole ribbon.
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eat, drink and be buried, Sep 26 2011
By jenny - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried: A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery (Paperback)
Excellent book, just like all of Kate Kingsbury's pennyfoot hotel mysteries. I can't wait for the next book to come out.
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So much extra fluff, not enough mystery, Feb 18 2009
By David Wilkin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried: A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery (Paperback)
When an author does not have a lot to make a book rich, it is evident. Evidence being a primary part of solving mysteries. Here with the lack of evidence hanging over the murder, our heroine has lots of time on her hands.
Now how is that? I am four books into this series, and we have a struggling hotel proprietor who has a lot of time on her hands. Not only that there are two failing subplots in this book that eat up entire pages of the small 200 page story. Well it is 200 pages less the blank pages in between chapters, what, What! That double what is how one of the characters that is becoming very one dimensiional speaks. Those two subplots, one dealing with a character we have thought of as permanent just rings false.
Early Edwardian england must have had a lot of bigamy, it being so cavalierly dismissed so quickly. The other a guest who won't leave his room and days go by thinking of using the pass key to enter the room. Just something to get around to, or couldn't find the member of the hotel staff that has the key? There are not that many staff members.
So enough with all the excess to the mystery. Was that good? No. Where are a believable red herring, where is some back story so we have some idea that there are things obscuring our view. There aren't. The circumstances surrounding the murder are not so strong that the conclusion does not rush at you. The devices the author indulges in to keep you interested are non existent. The ambiance of Edwardian England are thin.
If you have a choice, this series is something that you should pass on.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
A nice little Georgian mystery!, Aug 20 2008
By S. Schwartz "romonko" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Eat, Drink, and Be Buried: A Pennyfoot Hotel Mystery (Paperback)
This book is set in the south coast of England during the Regency period (specifically 1908 for this one). Cecily finds her beloved Pennyfoot Hotel in the middle of another murder when one of her guests is found hanging from the Maypole. She of course can't resist trying to find out who the killer is since she doesn't have much faith in the police getting anywhere, so she starts asking questions. These books are nice little cozies, but the mystery in this one is pretty simple to figure out. I enjoy Cecily and her friends and staff though, so I will read more in the series.
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