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Death of a Moffy
New Doubleday / Crime Club, 1987. 1st Edition, Hardbound, 8.5 inches tall, 178 pages. Robert Helmer's quaint English country hotel seems the perfect place to spend a cozy holiday. But behind the peaceful setting lurks a labyrinth of criminal mischief. First, there's the fact that business is not booming and Helmer's other business schemes transfer the burden of running the hotel to his assistant, Caroline Sklene. When Helmer's daughter is kidnapped, Caroline hires Alex Kenric, an acquaintance who works for a security agency to find the daughter. Then Helmer is found with a suitcase full of money and Caroline's life is in danger. Margaret Jean Morris wrote a series of detective novels as by Kenneth O'Hara, starting with A View to a Death (1958). She is also the author of a young adult novel, The Path of the Dragons.
178 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
Kenneth O'Hara
32 booksReal name: Margaret Jean Morris, aka Jean Morris:
UK writer who began her career with Man and Two Gods (1953), some plays and a series of detective novels as by Kenneth O'Hara, starting with A View to a Death (1958). As JM she began publishing YA fantasy novels with The Path of the Dragons (1980), which remains her best-known. Set in a richly conceived, technologically advanced Atlantis, it depicts – with a complexity reminiscent of the work of Ursula K Le Guin – the relation of the Atlantids to the Dragons who plough the skies, wise and inscrutable; and to the activities of men and gods in the throes of enacting – perhaps for the first time – the Myths which underlie the Greek Pantheon. Twist of Eight (coll 1981) contains Revisionist Fantasies, including examinations of Cinderella and "True Thomas". The Donkey's Crusade (1983), set in the ostensibly Christianized context of a monkish Quest for Prester John, transforms the Ass into a wise Companion who is both Talking Animal and savant, and who guides the humans in his care into the Land of Fable of the East. In The Troy Game (1987) a young man is sent on a quest by a Magus named Mennor (he resembles Merlin) which ends – after a Wild-Hunt episode – in a mysterious Edifice in the heart of the "troy maze" (> Labyrinth); the protagonist's Rite of Passage into wisdom is cogently presented. JM remains a central crafter of tales for her demanding market.
UK writer who began her career with Man and Two Gods (1953), some plays and a series of detective novels as by Kenneth O'Hara, starting with A View to a Death (1958). As JM she began publishing YA fantasy novels with The Path of the Dragons (1980), which remains her best-known. Set in a richly conceived, technologically advanced Atlantis, it depicts – with a complexity reminiscent of the work of Ursula K Le Guin – the relation of the Atlantids to the Dragons who plough the skies, wise and inscrutable; and to the activities of men and gods in the throes of enacting – perhaps for the first time – the Myths which underlie the Greek Pantheon. Twist of Eight (coll 1981) contains Revisionist Fantasies, including examinations of Cinderella and "True Thomas". The Donkey's Crusade (1983), set in the ostensibly Christianized context of a monkish Quest for Prester John, transforms the Ass into a wise Companion who is both Talking Animal and savant, and who guides the humans in his care into the Land of Fable of the East. In The Troy Game (1987) a young man is sent on a quest by a Magus named Mennor (he resembles Merlin) which ends – after a Wild-Hunt episode – in a mysterious Edifice in the heart of the "troy maze" (> Labyrinth); the protagonist's Rite of Passage into wisdom is cogently presented. JM remains a central crafter of tales for her demanding market.
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