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Marian Babson brings back theater actresses Trixie and Evangeline in No Cooperation from the Cat, her latest cat-suffused cozy!

Trixie’s daughter Martha has taken up residence in the kitchen she shares with her friend Evangeline. Martha is frantically testing last-minute recipes to meet the deadline for her cookbook, helped by Jocasta, her overworked editor. When a strange man bursts into their lives, it’s revealed that Martha was not the first choice for the cookbook, and that the woman originally working on it died after eating something at a cooking demonstration. Unwanted guests descend on the already crowded and tense apartment, one of whom ends up dead. Cho-Cho-San, the lovely Japanese bobtail cat, joins in the fun as Trixie and Evangeline become entangled in another puzzling murder.

Babson delivers a delightfully witty mystery with a cast sure to induce laughs, including one cat that will steal readers’ hearts.

Dame Cecile Savoy's "revolting floor mop" of a Pekinese has passed away at a ripe old age. Now, the aging British actress convinces her rivals on stage and screen, Trixie and Evangeline, to support her in her hour of grief...by accompanying her to a taxidermist. But it's a cab ride straight to a cat-astrope! No sooner do the three elderly thespians enter "Stuff Yours" than they discover a dead body, a live kitty in a cage, and flames bursting from the back room. Fortunately for a rare Japanese bobtail called Cho-Cho-San, Trixie grabs the cat before fleeing the scene. But who's the victim? Who set the fire? And why was a gorgeous feline going to be stuffed? Of course, Cho-Cho-San knows more than she's letting on as the curtain goes up on foul play, murderous jealousies, and a killer who may be going to the dogs....

Reggie and Midge, reluctant managers of an English country inn of no particular distinction, find that even this transformation of what was the family's more or less stately home will not solve their financial problems. The possibility of succor comes instead in a transatlantic phone call from Midge's old classmate, Victoria, who is arranging "mystery tours" of the English countryside for American visitors, and wants to use Chortlesby Manor as one of the locales of her staged murders.

From the beginning, the mystery tour project is heading for disaster. Dissension, complaints, shows of temperament abound. These are upstaged, however, by a snowstorm of paralyzing amplitude, which in turn must retire from the spotlight when a real murder takes front and center.

Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair, aging starlets of the silver screen, balk at the idea of playing the traditional roles reserved for actresses of their advanced years. So they pool their creative energies and scour the London pub theater scene for that elusive diamond in the rough - the perfect part. Evening after evening, they endure horrid dialogue, foul acting, and seedy sets all in the name of art. During the course of their noble quest, Sweetums Carew, a longtime colleague and troublesome rival, appears on the scene bragging about the lead role she's just landed. Trixie and Evangeline's search intensifies because it's not just their livelihoods that are at stake now, but their dignity and waning shots at immortality. They never suspect that while they stalk the playwright who will revive their careers, someone else is stalking them.

Taking one of the penthouse suites in a run-down warehouse still being restored into posh flats, former film stars Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair encounter a mixed bag of neighbors whose tangled relationships will lead inevitably to murder. Written with Babson's usual wit and charm, Even Yuppies Die will delight her fans and make her a gaggle of new ones.

Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair are starring in a new Dracula film, but when the weather turns foul during the tense shooting, Trixie and Evangeline are suspected of being real vampires and murder makes a cameo appearance.

Back by popular demand are the two aging ex-movie stars Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair. Trixie Dolan, the high-kicking narrator of "Reel Murder", is in London sharing quarters with her friend Evangeline Sinclair. Evangeline is writing her memoirs when she discovers that an old rival is writing hers as well, and trouble begins. Because the truth is spread very thinly between them and who knows what secrets are going to be revealed? Trixie seems to be the only one who can ward off an explosion. As if that wasn't enough, Trixie's daughter Martha, having driven her mother half mad with ever-changing plans for her forthcoming wedding, makes things even worse by announcing that she isn't going through with the nuptials. Trixie, who is equal to most things, begins to worry about her powers of sheer survival. To top it all, death strikes the unhappy trio and the person whom Martha has every wish to see dead is murdered by a well-placed arrow. Once again Evangeline and Trixie must play detectives and they once again prove to be cast in starring roles.

The “consistently witty” Agatha Award–winning author presents a tale of murder in a country mansion ( Mystery News ).

With their fortunes dwindling, Reggie and his wife, Midge, have turned the family mansion into an English country inn. When Midge gets a call from an old classmate who arranges “mystery tours” for visiting Americans, she happily agrees to host one of these staged-murder events.

But the tour seems to be a disaster from the get-go, with lots of arguing and complaining among those involved. Then, after a massive snowstorm, a real murder takes place—and it’s up to the amateur sleuths to solve the case before the killer checks them out permanently.

Praise for Marian Babson
“Marian Babson’s name on a mystery is a guarantee of quality writing wrapped around an unusual crime.” —Houston Chronicle

A retrospective held in her honor brings silent film star Eve Sinclair, along with her life-long friend Trixie, to London, but when the young woman sharing their flat is murdered, Eve and Trixie become prime suspects