num_pages: 192
description: Short-tempered Enid Marley has a foolproof system for answering queries from the many fans of her advice column in You magazine, but she has no sense at all when it comes to solving her own problems. When her latest husband strays, she decides to get his attention with a fake suicide attempt, but her plan misfires horribly. While she’s teetering on the window ledge outside her office waiting to be noticed, hands reach out for her, causing her to lose her balance and fall. She survives, thanks to a well-placed awning and an unfortunate passer-by, leaving everyone to debate if it was Suicide, Murder, or Misadventure.In her absence, an unemployed ballet dancer named Rex is hired to fill in for her, making a hopeless hash of her system and sending alarmingly wrong advice to her many readers, who eventually join forces to wreak vengeance on You. Meanwhile, Inspector Willis searches for an escaped killer while little Doctor Felz, one of Enid’s colleagues, lives in fear that his past will catch up with him and Kidder, a hard-drinking crime reporter, takes up residence in the lift. Equal parts satire and farce, it’s the last of four hilarious crime novels from a brilliant writer author whose career was cut short by her untimely death.
language: English
title: Murder's Little Sister
titlecomplete: Murder's Little Sister
genres: Mystery
ratings_count: 29
publisher: Rue Morgue