An elderly lady is up to no good

Author/Creator:

Tursten, Helene, 1954- author

Publication/Creation:

New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2018

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

An elderly lady is up to no good / Helene Tursten ; translated by Marlaine Delargy

Uniform Title:

Works. Selection.

Related/Included Titles:

An elderly lady has accommodation problems --
An elderly lady on her travels --
An elderly lady seeks peace at Christmastime --
The antique dealer's death --
An elderly lady is faced with a difficult dilemma.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Delargy, Marlaine, translator

Subjects/Genre

Genre:

Detective and mystery fiction
Humorous fiction
Short stories
Novels

Subjects:

Older people--Fiction
Murderers--Fiction
Göteborg (Sweden)--Fiction

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

An elderly lady has accommodation problems -- An elderly lady on her travels -- An elderly lady seeks peace at Christmastime -- The antique dealer's death -- An elderly lady is faced with a difficult dilemma.

Summary:

Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss investigations, features two-never-before translated stories that will keep you laughing all the way to the retirement home. Ever since her darling father's untimely death when she was only eighteen, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg rent-free, thanks to a minor clause in a hastily negotiated contract. That was how Maud learned that good things can come from tragedy. Now in her late eighties, Maud contents herself with traveling the world and surfing the net from the comfort of her father's ancient armchair. It's a solitary existence, and she likes it that way. Over the course of her adventures--or misadventures--this little bold lady will handle a crisis with a local celebrity who has her eyes on Maud's apartment, foil the engagement of her long-ago lover, and dispose of some pesky neighbors. But when the local authorities are called to investigate a dead body found in Maud's apartment, will Maud finally become a suspect?

Language:

English

Language Note:

In English, translated from the Swedish.

Physical Type/Description:

171 pages ; 16 cm

General Note:

"Three stories were first published in Swedish in a collection entitled Mina mindre mord och mysterier"--Copyright page.
Subtitle from cover.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936857309702486

ISBN:

1641290110
9781641290111

OCLC Number:

1023080443

Barcode:

010003093840