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Murder Laughs Last

Murder Laughs Last

Myers, M. Ruth

Paperback

Mystery & Thriller

ISBN13: 9798176627947
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 15 2026
Pages: 340
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
His retirement plans didn't include a headless corpse.Would-be mystery writer Cecil Appleby has plotted the perfect retirement - enjoying his collection of Golden Age whodunits, his plants, and his adored cat. The plot twists as soon as it starts when his historic home in a cozy village yields a fresh corpse that has misplaced its head.

Instead of quiet and privacy he has media vans on his doorstep. Squabbling law enforcement agencies look in all the wrong places. They think Cecil's trips for the Agriculture Department were cover for covert assignments. They go after the hapless real estate agent who sold Cecil his corpse-yielding house sight unseen. They even target his savvy young housekeeper, Winks, because she has a juvenile record. Indignant at the injustice and bureaucracy, Cecil sets out to find the real killer.

As the determined amateur sleuth investigates, he develops unexpected and unlikely friendships, from a razor-sharp local news blogger fired by her own son, to residents of a halfway house, to a scrappy retired professor who appoints himself Cecil's sidekick. But Cecil's skill at unearthing clues and upending alibis sets him on a collision course with the sword-wielding killer. Will Cecil be able to keep his own head firmly attached?

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