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Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
During his career as a Boston cop, Jeff "J. W." Jackson saw enough of the evil that men do to last a lifetime. So he retired to the serenity of Martha's Vineyard to spend his days fishing for blues and wooing a sexy nurse named Zee. But when a local's boat mysteriously explodes off the coast, killing an amiable young drifter, Jackson finds himself reluctantly drawn back into the investigative trade. For there is a serpent loose in paradise -- and...
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
219 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Martha's Vineyard, former policeman and philosopher J.W. Jackson is hired to protect an actress, famous for protesting sexism by baring her breasts at the Academy Awards. The actress is receiving threatening letters from a killer.
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English
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"Victoria Trumbull has lived most of her ninety-two years on the Island. Martha's Vineyard, its magic and its history, is part of the texture of her life. Like other Islanders, she knows the sounds of the sea in calm and stormy weather and she knows the sounds that do not belong. One evening while Victoria waits on the dock for her granddaughter to return with the harbormaster, she hears a chilling scream followed by a splash and the sound of tires...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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Ninety-two-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull discovers a neighbor's body in the home of one of the three town assessors, who have been skimming off tax money from wealthy landowners and stashing it in their own retirement funds. then the private pilot of the spouse of one of these landowners is found dead, floating in him employer's pond. When Victoria finds the body of the long-missing assessors' clerk, it's time to team up with her old friend...
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English
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LeRoy Watts, owner of Watts Electrical, is waiting for his twin sons to come home when a recently fired employee staggers in and threatens to blackmail him. Watts shoots him with a supposedly non-lethal Taser, and he dies. Meanwhile, several members in a local knitting group are being stalked by telephone. One of them is Victoria Trumbull's granddaughter, and the 92-year-old sleuth sets out to investigate both situations.
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Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
viii, 291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a body is found in the trench where men are laying a fiber-optic cable across Martha's Vineyard, Victoria Trumbell's new boarder tells her he recognizes the dead man as someone who was a potential investor.
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On her first day as adjunct professor at Ivy Green College, Victoria Trumbull recognizes the stench emanating from her classroom as more than just dead mice. Brownie, the groundskeeper's mangy mutt, soon discovers a second body hiding beneath a cluster of poison ivy. The stakes have never been higher for Ivy Green, which is on the brink of losing already-lukewarm support from its accredited partner, Cape Cod University. Thackery Wilson, the founder...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"It's just another day at the dentist's office for Victoria Trumbull when fellow patient, wealthy Mrs. Wilmington, dies. It's an unfortunate, though seemingly not murderous incident, but the receptionist is hysterical, so one of the dental assistants offers to drive her home. But after making a quick pit stop, he finds her body floating in the harbor. With the police shorthanded due to an upcoming presidential visit, it's up to Victoria to take on...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
435 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...
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Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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It’s a case of cold feet—and cold-blooded murder—as 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull gets more than she bargained for after hosting an ill-fated wedding.
A wedding on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees—but she has no idea what’s...
A wedding on picturesque Martha’s Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees—but she has no idea what’s...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 video discs (5 hours & 49 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
A beautiful place to die: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
Riddled with deceit: Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr Zee Madeiras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also a murderer.
Ships in the night: When an art gallery robbery leads to the...
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