Dying for Chametz & Other Mystery Stories for Passover - Paperback

by Libi Astaire (Author)

Barnet Court's connoisseurs of crime are back! Join retired Jewish detectives Herschel Perlow, Miss Janice Eppel, Ronny and Rubles Bernfeld, and author Agatha Krinsky as they tackle new mysteries to solve in this humorous, Passover-themed homage to Dame Agatha Christie.

Included are these three novellas:

Dying for Chametz: Barnet Court is all abuzz when it's announced that Claudette Kelly, a film star from the Golden Age of Hollywood, will be filming an interview at the home a few weeks before Passover. But the event takes an unexpected turn when the star is found in a chametz closet, murdered.

Deceit on the Nile: What could be more charming and relaxing than a cruise down the Nile? Unfortunately, the vacation quickly turns vexatious when the Ten Plagues become the weapon of choice for someone bent on revenge.

A Murderer Is Denounced: A mock Seder is the unusual setting for a settling of accounts involving a murder dating back to World War II. ABOUT THE aUTHOR: Libi Astaire is the author of the award-winning Jewish Regency Mystery Series, a humorous historical mystery series in which wealthy-widower-turned-sleuth Mr. Ezra Melamed teams up with General Well’ngone and the Earl of Gravel Lane - the lovably quirky leaders of a gang of young Jewish pickpockets - to solve crimes involving Regency London's Jewish community. She is also the author of "Terra Incognita," a novel about the crypto-Jews of Spain; "The Banished Heart," a novel about Shakespeare, secret Jews and 1930s Berlin; and "Day Trips to Jewish History," a collection of essays about lesser-known people and places in Jewish history. Her retelling of Chassidic tales has been published in the box set "Choose Light! Chassidic Tales for Chanukah, Rosh Hashanah, Sukkos, Passover & Shavuos." And last but certainly not least, she is the author of "The Latke in the Library & Other Mystery Stories for Chanukah" and "Dying for Chametz & Other Mystery Stories for Passover," humorous homages to Dame Agatha Christie . She lives in Jerusalem, Israel.