The Sleeping Salesman Enquiry: An Ivy Beasley Mystery

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Ivy Elizabeth Beasley is ready to share her golden years and plans to wed Roy Vivian Goodman on the fifth of May. A spinster no more, the private eye is in for marriage, murder and mishaps galore. It s the talk of Ivy Beasley's retirement community, her fianc(c), Roy, has quite the hefty inheritance. And when, against Ivy s wishes, Roy asks his dubious nephew, furniture salesman Steven Wright, to be the best man, she cannot help but disapprove. When a body is discovered in a nearby furniture shop, Ivy and her team of sleuths may be closer to a dangerous reception than they realise.

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Praise for the Ivy Beasley Mysteries

This cozy will keep you guessing until the last page. A very fast story with a very unique main character in Ivy. Full of wit, animosity and friendships to keep.Once Upon a Romance

A pleasant read, evoking Saint Mary Mead and Miss Marple with its atmosphere of surface calm and hidden demons. Its a solid book, cleverly plotted and tightly structured, with all the makings of a perennial favorite.Curled Up with a Good Book

...and the Lois Meade Mysteries

"Spot-on observations of working-class village life."--Publishers Weekly

"A real page turner." --Kirkus Reviews

"The indomitable Lois is something of an updated Miss Marple"--Booklist

Author Bio

Ann Purser is also the author of the Lois Meade Mysteries that ran from Murder on Monday to Sorrow on Sunday andnow continue Lois Meade's sleuthing in Warning at One, Tragedy at Two,Threats at Three, Foul Play at Four, and Found Guilty at Five.The series featuring Ivy Beasley includes such titles as The Hangman's Row Enquiry and The Measby Murder Enquiry. She was born in Market Harborough in Leicestershire, and has lived most of her life in villages. She has turned her hand to many things, including journalism (as a columnist for SHE magazine), keeper of hens and donkeys, art gallery manager, clerical assistant in a village school, Open University graduate, novelist, mother of three, wife of Philip Purser, critic and writer. She is an avid reader of detective stories.