Death On Delivery
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CHAPTER 1 Warmkessel
"Ve grow too soon old und too late smart."
Warmkessel surveyed the crime scene with a rising sense of panic. In the doorway of the plush dining room, he paused to steel himself against the anticipated sight. From this angle, only the back of the victim''s head was visible over the high backed chair. Tall one this time he deduced. He drew nearer, stopping as he reached the body.
The dead man sat well back in the chair, his left arm resting on the table, his right dangling over the padded arm, as if he had merely dozed off after a particularly fine meal.
Warmkessel moved off, making a quick but thorough tour through the other rooms. The entire apartment was large, airy, finely furnished and neat as a pin. Reluctantly, he returned to the dining room.
The body was neat too. No messy blood spatters to analyze. No ugly bullet holes to measure.
"Positively dainty," Warmkessel muttered to himself.
Even the still body seemed, at first, curiously to be merely part of the decor, no more bizarre or incongruous than the horns of deer and elk adorning fireplaces in
Man, or, he muttered, more likely in this case, woman.
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About the Book
Who would’ve thunk somebody in nice, quiet, Pennsylvania Dutch Plainfield would take to icing deliverymen? And with champagne yet!
To date, eleven
The sheer casualness of the murders has nice, quiet “normal”
In this, the third Fairchild mystery, Chief Warmkessel persuades Sal McKnight to forego her work with Juveniles and put her analytical mind to the problem, before hysteria tears the town apart.
With her “participas cur arum” twin, Sam Thaxton, off in China doing a job for the government, she taps Rick Masters, a transplanted Californian, happily eating his way through Plainfield’s restaurants, a disillusioned veteran sergeant and two young corporals for help.
In “Death On Delivery,” the third Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery, Sal and her team are joined by the “Main Duke” and his cohorts, who use their own inimitable skills in bringing about the successful apprehension of the murderer.
The Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery Series:
If It’s Monday, It Must Be Murder
Dead In Pleasant Company
Death On Delivery
So Long At The Fair (Not Yet Published)
About the Author
Ms. Fairchild is new to fiction writing. A life-long educator and business woman, Hannah Fairchild’s emergence as a writer came about when vision problems caused her to retire from her much loved work as student teacher supervisor.
No longer able to roam country roads in search of wild flowers, Ms. Fairchild saw an opportunity to write the mysteries she’d always wanted to write.
Drawing on her Pennsylvania Dutch heritage for inspiration, (“Throw papa down the stairs his hat,” “Ve grow too soon old und too late smart,”) her series, “The Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries,” is set in quiet Plainfield, a town still populated by the same hard working, phlegmatic Pennsylvania Dutch who built the town.
The main characters, Sam Thaxton and Salome Thaxton McKnight, twin heirs to the vast Thaxton fortune, are forty-five in the first book. “If It’s Monday it Must Be Murder” is drawn from her experiences as a teacher of adolescents with behavioral problems, experiences at once so frustrating, mystifying and delightful, there was nothing for it but to record that adventure. Once given life, the “Corrigibles” insisted on having a part in each of the “Pennsylvania Dutch Mysteries” as well.
The second, “Dead in Pleasant Company,“ features a unique killer who murders via the Internet.
“In Death on Delivery,” her third “Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery”, the Corrigibles are once again instrumental in saving the day
Ms. Fairchild writes the sort of mysteries she likes to read, with believable characters that matter, low on commonality and contrivance, high on humanity and humor. Her stories are literate and occasionally even a bit alliterate, each offering something unique to the reader.
A fourth book in the series, “So Long At The Fair,” is in the works.