Title: The house of seven Mabels
Subtitle: a Jane Jeffry mystery
Description: Homemaking" is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry, now that she's agreed to help the prosperouslydivorced Bitsy Burnside restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. Bitsy's decision to employ an almost all-woman crew has prompted Jane's quick-witted best bud Shelley Nowack to dub the project, "the House of Seven Mabels" -- but it's also engendered some nasty ill will.

And when what begins as a series of anonymous, mean-spirited "pranks" ends up leaving one of the workwomen lying dead at the foot of a staircase, Jane and Shelley decide to try and nail the assassin. But the more Jane saws away at the truth, the more it appears that she may be painting herself into a corner, leaving herself no exit if a crafty killer decides to make Jane Jeffry the next demolition project.
Subjects: Fiction, Women detectives, Single mothers, Jane Jeffry (Fictitious character), Suburban life, Remodeling, Dwellings, Popular Print Disabled Books, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Jeffry, jane (fictitious character), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction, Illinois, fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.), Illinois, Chicago