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The Weekend Was Murder
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The Weekend Was Murder Mass market paperback - 1994

by Nixon, Joan Lowery

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  • very good
  • Paperback

Foul play is the game at this murder mystery weekend. Mystery and game buffs will love the murder within the murder mystery weekend twist from three-time Edgar Award-winning author Joan Lowery Nixon. "A masterfully constructed, engaging read that will delight mystery fans . . . ingeniously plotted, fast-paced and lighthearted . . ".--Publishers Weekly.

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Laurel Leaf Library, 1994. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Weekend Was Murder
  • Author Nixon, Joan Lowery
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Laurel Leaf Library, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1994
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0440219019I4N10
  • ISBN 9780440219019 / 0440219019
  • Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 7 x 4.14 x 0.56 in (17.78 x 10.52 x 1.42 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 840
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery and detective stories, Theatrical companies
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00005095
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the jacket flap

Mary Elizabeth can't wait for the weekend to begin at the Ridley Hotel, where a famous mystery writer and a troupe of actors are coming to enact a murder mystery for 150 amateur sleuths.


Mary Elizabeth's role is to discover "the body" in Room1927, which is supposed to be haunted. But nothing prepares her for the real body that she finds in Room 1927....

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Media reviews

"A masterfully constructed, engaging read that will delight mystery fans... Ingeniously plotted, fast-paced, and lighthearted."--Publishers Weekly

"Nixon's many fans will enjoy wading through the myraid details and placing bets on the outcome."--Kirkus Reviews

"[A] something-for-everyone story."--School Library Journal


From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the author

Joan Lowery Nixon was the author of more than 130 books for young readers and was the only four-time winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Best Young Adult Mystery Award. She received the award for The Kidnapping of Christina Lattimore, The Sance, The Name of the Game Was Murder, and The Other Side of the Dark, which also won the California Young Reader Medal. Her historical fiction included the award-winning series The Orphan Train Adventures, Orphan Train Children, and Colonial Williamsburg: Young Americans.