Pair For The Queen

Tish McWhinny looks into a murder at a local dog show in this fifth in a series set in the Stratton area of Vermont. Comfort portrays the local community through the eyes of her elderly detective. Other whimsical McWhinny mysteries in print include Phoebe's Knee, Grave Consequences, The Cashmere Kid and Elusive Quarry.

Other VT Tidbits...
Comfort is an accomplished artist and divides her time between Manhattan and Landgrove, VT.

The enterprising Vermont sleuth Tish McWhinny --whom Booklist calls "an absolutely first-rate companion" --returns in her fifth Vermont mystery, on the trail of a murderer at a local dog show. Tish McWhinny reluctantly gets involved in restoring an old painting for a dog show promotion --harmless enough, but then the painting is stolen and someone is murdered. Is the crime connected to the rather shady new couple now running the local store? What about the retired Royal Navy man, now much interested in art, who unexpectedly turns up? Or niece Sophie's secretive new boyfriend? It takes all Tish's ingenuity, as well as the help of her courtly friend Hilary Oats and free-spirit Sophie, to find out what's going on and catch a cold criminal. "Lofton, Vermont, is a place I'd like to live --right next door to Tish McWhinny, if possible. Barbara Comfort's Vermont mysteries have the wonderful quality of being both mysterious and friendly. I love that saucy, sassy, septuagenarian Tish McWhinny." --Barbara D'Amato

Barbara Comfort is a portrait and landscape painter and the author of four earlier Vermont village mysteries featuring Tish McWhinny. She lives in New York City and Landgrove, Vermont.

Publisher: W.W. Norton
Published: 9907
Pages: 224

B. Comfort has perfect pitch and a portraitist's eye. . . . It's all great fun and games. (Sunday Rutland Herald)