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    Well Bred and Dead: A High Society Mystery

    By Catherine O'Connell

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    Newly widowed Pauline Cook was once the toast of the Windy City elite—but now she's practically broke. At least she's in better shape than her dear departed friend Ethan Campbell, whose corpse Pauline has had the misfortune to discover. A writer who chronicled the lives, loves, and ensembles of the Gold Coast's most elegant ladies, Ethan apparently took his own life—while inelegantly clad in old boxers, no less. And since no relatives are coming forward to claim Ethan's remains, it falls to Pauline to settle his final affairs . . . with her own dwindling funds.

    However, there are things about Ethan's suicide that don't seem to add up: the ratty undergarments he "chose" to die in, for example . . . and the multiple birth certificates the police turn up in his apartment. Before she can truly lay her friend to rest, plucky Pauline's determined to get to the bottom of his increasingly suspicious death.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061843204
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    Well Bred and Dead: A High Society Mystery
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    Catherine O'Connell

    Catherine O'Connell divides her time between Aspen and Chicago, and sits on the board of Aspen Words, a literary centre whose aim is to support writers and reach out to readers. A graduate of the University of Colorado School of Journalism, she is also the author of the High Society Mystery series.

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    • 5/5
      I read this book in one day. I'd read the first one, WELL BRED AND DEAD, so I knew what to expect as far as the superb storytelling--both in the writing and the plotting, and the (I'll call her) outrageous main character go. And I wasn't disappointed. The main character, Pauline Cook, is hilarious because half the time she doesn't see where she's a snob and the other half of the time she does see it and can't imagine that anyone in her right mind could be otherwise under those circumstances. I laughed out loud so many times that my cats ran out of the room (I never said I had a dainty laugh!), especially during the short bedroom scene where Pauline finally thinks she's got the unattached, aging billionnaire right where she wants him. Pauline seems to always be on the brink of bankruptcy but there's almost no area in her life where she can bear to cut back -- not on the $2,000 dresses, the first class travel, the champagne, the designer everything. As she's buying $300 bottles of wine or paying thousands extra for upgrading her airline ticket, she laments her fate (is she never to have financial security?) And yet when it comes to what she owes others, she is the cheapest woman I've ever read...paying the doorman $10 for taking care of her cat for several days (that might have been in the first book) and arguing over the difference between a $4 and a $5 tip. I was afraid Pauline would be too shallow to have my sympathy, but Catherine O'Connell pulls it off brilliantly. She makes Pauline not only likable, but admirable as well.
    • 2/5
      *sigh*

      This was a fun beach read, right up until the last chapter. The sudden miraculous reformation of the main character, plus a dated throwaway line intended to indicated disaster-to-come-anna-sequel were just ridiculous.