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Overview

The folks on the Broward's Rock library board want to declare their independence from new member, retired Brigadier General Charlton "Bud" Hatch. A man accustomed to being in charge, Hatch has commandeered the Fourth of July Festival, a benefit for the library, and has maneuvered it away from its original theme, a history of South Carolina women, transforming it into his own testosterone-laden vision, "Points of Patriotism."

Hatch's takeover attitude has alienated every woman in town, including good-natured Annie. But she finds it difficult to ignore him during the crowded patriotic festival -- especially wahen he's shot dead before her eyes.

With a list of likely suspects that could fill Town Hall, Annie and Max are stunned when the police arrest an innocent young man who recently quarreled with the malevolent martinet. In the spirit of '76, the determined Darlings take up the suspect's cause and forge a campaign to identify the party that dispatched Hatch.

Editorial Reviews

Baltimore Sun
The Darling duo is as winning as ever...
Chicago Sun Times
Displays the charm and coziness of Christie.
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Chicago Sun-Times
One of the most attractive pairs of sleuths since Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora Charles.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Carolyn Hart is one of the most popular practitioners of the traditional mystery.
Denver Post
Tantalizing...Keep[s] the reader guessing all the way.
Mostly Murder
One of the most charming and intelligent teams in fiction.
Romantic Times
Yankee Doodle Dead is an absolute delight for fans of the cozy mystery. There are interesting characters, humor, romance and plot twists enough to warm the heart of every mystery fan.
Publishers Weekly
This ninth in the Death on Demand series (after Mint Julep Murder, 1995) finds mystery-bookstore owner Annie Darling in top form: polite, considerate, cheerful and relentlessly investigative. Retired Brigadier General Charlton "Bud" Hatch is a newcomer to the tiny resort community of Broward's Rock, S.C., where his arrogance, power and extreme right-wing views have quickly antagonized many of the genteel yet clannish residents. When Hatch is shot to death at the island's annual Fourth of July festival, Annie and her relaxed but shrewd husband, Max, utilize their connections and gentle diplomacy to interview some of the many idiosyncratic natives who loathed the general. Was he murdered by a cuckolded husband? What about the young, sweet do-gooder whom Hatch had terrified? Or the gay library director whose job had been threatened by the moralistic library trustee? Annie and Max tap into the best source of information anywhere--rampant gossip--and, aided by society doyenne Miss Dora, find out more than they want to know. Might Max's flaky and much-married mother be another suspect? Rich in Southern atmosphere (lots of live oak, Spanish moss and the ever-present smell of the salt marsh), populated by a diverse and engaging cast, including the fallible, endearing leads, and following a deftly constructed plot line, this tale is charming--and gripping. (Sept.)
Library Journal
Popular series sleuth Annie Darling (Mint Julip Murder, LJ 8/95), owner of an island resort mystery bookstore, witnesses the murder of a much-hated man during a Fourth of July fundraiser for the local library. The usual clever plot and charming characters ensue.
Shirley Wetzel
Ms. Hart’s characters are, as usual, well-defined, complex, and entertaining. Her frequent references to the books and characters of other mystery writers is interesting and informative.
— Mystery Magazine Online
Kirkus Reviews
The peaceful tenor of life in Browardþs Rock, South Carolina, is at risk with the arrival on the island of retired Brigadier General Bud Hatch, a reactionary bully who detests gays, blacks, and anything that smacks of liberalism. Annie Darling (Mint Julep Murder, 1995, etc.), amateur sleuth and owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, sees trouble ahead when Hatch, now on the library board, seeks to downplay the role of South Carolina women in the historical chronicle being prepared for the upcoming Fourth of July Festival. Hatch would like to see the departure of the libraryþs competent director Ned Fisher, a gay man living with artist Toby Maguire. Neither is he happy with the un-complaisant president of the library board, Henry Brawley, or librarian Edith Cummings. When a hefty flowerpot falls from a library balcony and barely misses Hatch, he is quick to accuse Samuel Kinnon, a young black whose future is threatened by the Hatchþs animus. There are others whose lives are roiled by Hatchþs intrusion, but it all comes to a head on Festival Day when a gunshot ends his life and Samuel faces a murder charge. Annie and her husband Max work hard to prove Samuelþs innocence, homing in on answers that lie in the pastþbut the upshot is out of their hands. Loaded as usual with an excess of detective story lore, but the local characters are often appealing, as is the small-town atmosphere. Best of the authorþs recent outings. (Mystery Guild main selection)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780380793266
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 8/28/1999
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 285,499
  • Series: Death on Demand Series, #10
  • Product dimensions: 4.18 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 0.76 (d)

Meet the Author

Carolyn Hart
Carolyn Hart

An accomplished master of mystery, Carolyn Hart is the author of twenty previous Death on Demand novels. Her books have won multiple Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards. She is also the creator of the Henrie O series, featuring a retired reporter, and the Bailey Ruth series, starring an impetuous, redheaded ghost. One of the founders of Sisters in Crime, Hart lives in Oklahoma City.

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Chapter One

Annie Laurance Darling moved swiftly. Or as swiftly as she could propel her body through air thicker than congealing Jell-O. Her hair curled in tendrils. Her skin felt as moist as pond scum. If it got any more humid, Calcutta would be a resort in comparison. She thought longingly of cool air. Maybe she would read The Yellow Room by Mary Roberts Rinehart. It was always cool in Maine. Rinehart's heroine shivered. And lit fires.

Why had she ever come to this island where the summer air was heavier than mercury? She had a sudden, unsettling, cold sensation. She knew why she'd come to the land of no-see-ums, swamps and fragrant magnolias. She'd come to Broward's Rock a few years earlier because she was running away from a close encounter with one Maxwell Darling. How weird! What if Max hadn't, in his own imperturbable, incredibly determined way, followed her? What if now she wasn't Annie Laurance Darling, but just Annie Laurance? It would be a cold world indeed. She felt like flinging out her arms and embracing the humid, spongy air. What did a little heat matter?

Annie stopped at the door of her store and grinned. What could be better than a nice hot day in her own very happy corner of the world? Dear Max. And her wonderful store. She studied the name with pleasure -- DEATH ON DEMAND -- in tasteful gold letters. Without doubt it was the finest name for the finest mystery bookstore east of Atlanta. Smaller letters, also in gold, announced: "Annie Laurance Darling, Prop." She felt warm all over, a nice, comfortable, happy inner warmth that had nothingto do with humidity. Max. Her store. Her books. Hers to enjoy. It would, in fact, be an utterly lovely day -- except for the library board. She had tried to ignore a niggling sense of uneasiness all day. But her nerves quivered like snapping flags heralding a coming storm. The solution was obvious. Easy. No. She knew how to say no. That was all that was required to stay free of the controversy swirling around the library.

Determinedly, she stared at the Death on Demand window. She didn't really need to look at the window. After all, she'd put in the new display only last week. But it was clever, if she said so herself: a cherry-and-green-striped parasol open behind a mound of golden sand, a tipped-over beach bucket with a shower of brightly colored paperbacks spilling out -- Miss Zukas and the Library Murders by Jo Dereske, Something's Cooking by Joanne Pence, Murder on a Girls' Night Out by Anne George, Memory Can Be Murder by Elizabeth Daniels Squire, and Blooming Murder by Jean Hager.

Good mysteries. Fun mysteries. And that's what summer was all about: snow cones and walking fast on hot sand to plunge into cool water and mounds of mysteries; buckets of clams and kissing in the moonlight and piles of paperbacks with smoking guns or blood-dripping daggers on front covers, yellow, red and blue crime scenes on back covers.

Of course, those colorful covers were declasse today. But Paperback mysteries published in the forties and fifties, oh, what great back covers they had -- drawings of the manor house, sketches of the library where X marked the spot, maps of the village showing the rectory and the church, the graveyard and the shops along the high street. And, even more fun, the reader often found inside an equally colorful description of the book's contents, such as:

What This Mystery's About --

A bloodstained handkerchief.
The reason the cat meowed at midnight.
A dog named Petunia.
The contents of the rosewood box.
A woman with one husband, two lovers, and an angry sister.
A gun, a dagger, and a missing rhinoceros.

Golly, those were the great days of the mystery. And she always remembered Uncle Ambrose when she thought about old, great mysteries. Death on Demand had been his store originally, a smaller, much more masculine retreat. He'd welcomed his sister's daughter there every summer through her childhood and carefully chosen books for her. The Ivory Dagger by Patricia Wentworth, The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey, The Secret Vanguard by Michael Innes, offering them with a gruff "Think you'll like these." Like them! She'd loved every sentence, every paragraph, every page. And especially the wonderful mysteries with maps on the back cover...For a moment, Annie forgot all about the heat and the boxes of books to be unpacked and the mouse heads that Dorothy L. kept depositing on the kitchen steps at home and the increasing bitterness of the schism on the library board. She stood with a finger to her lip, wondering if anyone had a complete collection of all the Dell Mysteries with crime maps on the back. Now that would be --

"Annie."

Annie didn't turn at the swift, sharp clatter of shoes on the boardwalk. She recognized the voice despite its unaccustomed ferocity. Annie knew the fury wasn't directed at her. Nonetheless, she thought plaintively, this wasn't what summer was all about. But, as she took a deep breath and practiced saying no in her mind, this is what mysteries were all about -- anger, power, and fractured relationships. Annie wanted to contain misery between the bright covers of books where everything came out right in the end.

Henny Brawley, Annie's best customer, a retired teacher, and a mainstay of the Broward's Rock library board, didn't bother with a salutation. Her angular face sharp-edged as a red-tailed hawk diving for a rat, Henny yanked open the door to Death on Demand and stalked inside.

Annie followed, welcoming the initially icy waft of air-conditioning that almost instantly seemed tepid, proof indeed of the summer heat, into the nineties and climbing.

Yankee Doodle Dead. Copyright © by Carolyn Hart. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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