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    The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Collection
    The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Collection
    The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Collection
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    The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Collection

    Written by Gigi Pandian

    Narrated by Allyson Ryan

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    About this audiobook

    A treasure trove of nine locked room mysteries from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Gigi Pandian, all set in the Jaya Jones world.

    Appearing here for the first time, novelette The Cambodian Curse: When an ancient and supposedly cursed Cambodian sculpture disappears from an impenetrable museum, and the carving's owner is killed by an invisible assailant while a witness is a few feet away, historian Jaya Jones and her old nemesis Henry North team up to solve the baffling crime.

    Additional stories include: "The Hindi Houdini," "The Haunted Room," "The Library Ghost of Tanglewood Inn," "The Curse of Cloud Castle," "Tempest in a Teapot," "A Dark and Stormy Light," "The Shadow of the River," plus the bonus novella Fool's Gold.

    The Cambodian Curse Other Stories includes an introduction from New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King addressing why we love locked rooms, and a foreword from impossible crime mystery historian Douglas G. Greene, teasing out the tradition of John Dickson Carr that Pandian is following. This collection is filled with ingenious stories of magic, mystery, and history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781977344656
    The Cambodian Curse and Other Stories: A Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt Mystery Collection
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    Gigi Pandian

    GIGI PANDIAN is the USA Today bestselling and multiple-award-winning author of the Secret Staircase mysteries, inspired by elements from her own family background. She is also the author of the Accidental Alchemist mysteries, the Jaya Jones Treasure Hunt mysteries, and more than a dozen locked-room mystery short stories. Pandian has won Agatha, Anthony, Lefty, and Derringer awards, and was a finalist for an Edgar Award. A breast cancer survivor and accidental almost-vegan who adores cooking, she lives with her husband in Northern California.

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      My favorite of these locked-room, Jaya Jones (historian), stories was the final novella-length one titled: Fool's Gold. Its setting was Edinboro, Scotland, during the Fringe Festival, with Jaya's magician friend, Sanjay, playing a significant role in solving the crime. There's also an informative Introduction by Laurie R. King, plus an interesting Foreword that gives a good bit of history on Locked-room mysteries. Besides all that, the narrator, Allyson Ryan, does such an excellent job with all the various dialects, making this audio collection of stories an entertaining and satisfying listen.