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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Celebrant Sleuth
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y separately published work icon Celebrant Sleuth : I Do ... or Die Hazel Edwards , Vermont South : BookPOD , 2017 14314305 2017 single work single work novel crime

''I buried my father, married my sister and sorted the missing will.'

'Quinn, a celebrant with style and a few obsessions but a good heart, solves quirky problems, mysteries and the occasional murder at weddings, funerals and naming ceremonies in her country town.

'Ex-actor with a great voice who writes eulogies to die for! Not forgetting a few quotable 'Quinn's Laws of Relativity'. A romantic, but asexual, Quinn lives with her long term partner Art who runs community Channel Zero.

'The workstyle of a celebrant is never routine. Fake I.D. Fraud. Fights, even to the death, over wills and inheritance ... Mislaid rings. Lost bride. Food poisoning. Clients of varied ages and cultures are well looked after. Even vintage millionairess Flora with the much younger lover who might be a con-artist.

'Quinn solves most problems but not always in the expected way.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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y separately published work icon Wed Then Dead on The Ghan Hazel Edwards , Vermont South : BookPOD , 2019 26523816 2019 single work novel crime

'Sleuth Quinn is on ‘The Ghan’, booked to celebrate a ‘real’ wedding at the sunrise breakfast stop out in the desert at Marla. But things go wrong. Are they clues?

'The train manager has devised an Agatha Christie role-playing mystery to attract international fans. Themed tourism is trending. Agatha Christie fans joke about ‘Murder on the Orient Express’.

'Intriguingly, the ‘Wed, Then Dead on The Ghan ’ scenario offers opportunities to ‘dress up’ , find clues and act out the mystery while seeing wildlife and the stark eco-beauty of the desert.

'Quinn deals with Scandinavian Book Club members passionate to see ‘kangaroos’, opal fraud, missing indigenous [sic] artifacts, inheritances and the mystique of long distance train travel.

'Plus performing a wedding for the descendant of one of the original Ghans. ‘Wed, Then Dead on the Ghan’ is not quite what the roleplaying tourists expected. Fiction becomes fact.

'Quinn, a celebrant with style and a few obsessions, but a good heart, solves quirky problems, mysteries and the occasional murder.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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    • Vermont South, Blackburn - Mitcham - Vermont area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: BookPOD , 2017-2019 .
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