Mrs. Malory’s Shortest Journey
Hazel Holt

The lady vanishes

Sweet, very rich Mrs. Edith Rossiter would be better off dead—for a surprising number of people. Her greedy daughter covets her fortune. Her son wants large sums of cash. And the family of her gravely ill sister would get a fat windfall if Edith should expire first. Edith, however, is alive and well in Taviscombe’s finest nursing home until… without leaving a trace, she suddenly vanishes.

With no evidence of foul play, Mrs. Sheila Malory has only suspicions about her old friend’s fate. She hears nursing home gossip about Edith’s stash of sleeping pills, about an argument, about the appearance of a mysterious man and woman, so she uses her skills as an amateur sleuth to nose around the window’s secrets. And there Mrs. Malory makes a discovery that—in the case of Edith at least—family and friends would find shocking…except for those who firmly believe there is life after death.

Signet (Mystery), June 1995
ISBN #0451183959
Paperback (reprint)
$4.99

Also by Hazel Holt:
Mrs. Malory and a Necessary End, October 2012
Mrs. Malory and Any Man's Death, December 2009
Mrs. Malory and A Time To Die, December 2008
Mrs. Malory and A Death In the Family, November 2006
Mrs. Malory And No Cure for Death, October 2005
Mrs. Mallory and the Silent Killer, March 2004
Mrs. Malory and Death in Practice, July 2003
Mrs. Malory and Death By Water, January 2003
Mrs. Malory and the Delay of Execution, June 2002
And the Dying is Easy, June 2001
Mrs. Malory and the Lilies That Fester, June 2001
Mrs. Malory and the Fatal Legacy, April 2000
Mrs. Malory Death Among Friends, June 1999
Mrs. Malory and the Only Good Lawyer, December 1998
Mrs. Malory: Detective in Residence, December 1998
Mrs. Malory Death of a Dean, December 1997
Mrs. Malory Wonders Why, November 1996
Mrs. Malory Investigates, July 1994
Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder, July 1994

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