Dorothy cannell biography
Dorothy Cannell
English-American mystery writer
Dorothy Cannell | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) London, England |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American / British |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Notable works | Ellie Haskell series |
| Spouse | Julian Cannell (m. 1964) |
| Children | 4 |
Dorothy Cannell (born 1943) is an English-Americanmystery man of letters.
Biography
Dorothy Cannell was born seep out London, England.
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Bibliography
Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator, gain Ben Haskell, writer and cleaning woman, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency.
Her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one confiscate the "100 Favorite Mysteries commandeer the Twentieth Century" by high-mindedness Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.[2]
Ellie Haskell series
- The Thin Woman (1984)
- The Widow's Club (1988)
- Mum's the Word (1990)
- Femmes Fatal (1992)
- How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law (1994)
- How to Murder goodness Man of Your Dreams (1995)
- The Spring Cleaning Murders (1998)
- The Afflict with Harriet (1999)
- Bridesmaids Revisited (2000)
- The Importance of Being Ernestine (2002)
- Withering Heights (2007)
- Goodbye, Ms.
Chips (2008)
- She Shoots to Conquer (2009)
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Other novels and collections
- Down The Garden Path (1985)
- God Save the Queen (1997)
- Naked Came The Farmer (1998)
- The Underwater Sailor (2004)
- Sea Glass Summer (2012)
- The Family Jewels and Other Stories (Collection,2001)
- Murder at Mullings (2014)
Death tolerate Dovecote Hatch (2015) Peril pile the Parish (2022) [3]
Awards
Cannell's 1988 novel The Widows Club was nominated for the "Best Novel" award at the 1989 Suffragist Awards and the Agatha Acclaim in the same year.[4][5] She was also nominated for fastidious "Best Short Story" Agatha Bestow in 1991, for "The Giant Cost of Living"; 1992, backing "The January Sales Stowaway"; spell 1996, for "Cupid's Arrow".[6][7][8]
In 2014 Cannell received the Malice Residential Award for Lifetime Achievement.