Dorothy Cannell

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born

January 01, 1943 in London, The United Kingdom

gender

female

genre

Mystery & Thrillers

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(from Fantastic Fiction online)

Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England, and now lives in Belfast, Maine. Dorothy Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency.

(from Internet Book List)

Dorothy Cannell, a mother of four, grandmother of ten, and owner of a King Charles Spaniel, was born in England and moved to the United States when she was twenty. After living in Peoria, Illinois, for years, she and her husband recently moved to Belfast, Maine. Her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the 100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century by the Independen...more

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Books by Dorothy Cannell

Average rating: 3.70 · 4,620 ratings · 423 reviews · 38 distinct works

	The Thin Woman (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #1) 3.92 avg rating — 1,133 ratings — published 1984 — 11 editions	My rating:
	The Widow's Club (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #3) 3.73 avg rating — 339 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Withering Heights (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #12) 3.48 avg rating — 347 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #6) 3.64 avg rating — 302 ratings — published 1994 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Mum's the Word (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #4) 3.66 avg rating — 244 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:
	How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #7) 3.70 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Spring Cleaning Murders (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #8) 3.64 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1998 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Femmes Fatal (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #5) 3.74 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1992 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Down the Garden Path (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #2) 3.67 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Bridesmaids Revisited (Ellie Haskell Mystery, #10) 3.67 avg rating — 203 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Dorothy Cannell

Ellie Haskell Mystery (14 books)
by Dorothy Cannell

3.69 avg rating — 4,077 ratings

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Quotes by Dorothy Cannell

“Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After.”
― Dorothy Cannell, Withering Heights

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Polls

Please vote for the book you would like to read in april. The 3 books with the most votes will be the book club selections. Voting ends March 21, 2010

The Bone Collector

by Jeffery Deaver

13 votes, 23.2%

One for the Money

by Janet Evanovich

12 votes, 21.4%

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

11 votes, 19.6%

The Thin Woman

by Dorothy Cannell

8 votes, 14.3%

A Morbid Taste for Bones: The First Chronicle of Brother Cadfael by Ellis Peters

5 votes, 8.9%

Catering to Nobody (Goldy Bear Culinary Mystery, Book 1)

Catering to Nobody by Diane Mott Davidson

3 votes, 5.4%

The Black Echo by Michael Connelly

2 votes, 3.6%

I, the Jury

by Mickey Spillane

1 vote, 1.8%

Devil in a Blue Dress

by Walter Mosley

1 vote, 1.8%

56 total votes

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