Title: Yankee Doodle dead
Subtitle: a death on demand mystery
First published: 1998
Description: Master mystery spinner Carolyn Hart gives us the tenth high-spirited entry in her Agatha, Anthony and Macavity Award-winning Death on Demand series.

The most delectable sleuthing couple since Nick met Nora, Annie and Max Darling manage to find quite a bit of murder in their allegedly safe and serene South Carolina island resort town. After all, murder is Annie's business -- well, sort of. She's the proprietor of the popular Death on Demand mystery bookstore and cafe, and her establishment seems to attract trouble like Annie's pesky felines, Dorothy L. and Agatha, attract hairballs. Now, Annie and Max watch their Fourth of July holiday explode not only with fun and fireworks, but with murder as well.

The library board wants to declare its independence from new member, retired Brigadier General Charlton "Bud" Hatch, a man accustomed to being in charge. Hatch's takeover attitude has alienated everyone in town, especially the women. But Annie finds it difficult to ignore him at a crowded patriotic festival -- particularly when he's shot dead before her eyes..
Subjects: Fiction, Women detectives, Max Darling (Fictitious character), Annie Laurance Darling (Fictitious character), Booksellers and bookselling, Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Large type books, South carolina, fiction, Darling, annie laurance (fictitious character), fiction, Darling, max (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Broward's rock (s.c. : imaginary place), fiction, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Women authors
Places: South Carolina
LC classification: PS3558.A676 Y36 1998