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    A Case of Imagination: A Madeline Maclin Mystery

    By Jane Tesh

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    On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead. It doesn't help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI.

    Mac has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be psychic and is, unlike his two brothers, somewhat screwy. And he refuses to claim a share in the Fairweather fortune. But he shares some good news with Mac—his Uncle Val has died and left him a house. The two friends drive out to Celosia, a half hour away, where they discover a local beauty pageant in trouble and a house just perfect for setting up shop. A Psychic Shop. The arrival of lawyer Olivia, Jerry's shark-like girlfriend, rouses both Mac's interest in the mystery at the pageant and the one in her own heart. And then comes the first murder.

    A Case of Imagination is Jane Tesh's playful first mystery, the start of a series by an author who admires Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Carl Hiaasen, and P.G. Wodehouse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSourcebooks
    Release dateFeb 9, 2006
    ISBN9781615952137
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    A Case of Imagination: A Madeline Maclin Mystery
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    Jane Tesh

    Jane Tesh is a retired media specialist and pianist for the Andy Griffith Playhouse in Mt. Airy, North Carolina. She is the author of the popular Madeline Maclin Mysteries and the Grace Street Mysteries.

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    • 1/5
      Barely okay cozy about a former beauty pageant winner turned private investigator. weak plotting. Weak character development.
    • 3/5
      This one was a fun read. It counts towards the ROOTS challenge (forgot what the acronym stands for but I'm sure Chèli will let us know), it's southern, and it's a mystery. Besides, I saw the second one in the series available in audio and wanted to read the first one before #2.It was a hoot. Madeline Maclin is (or was) a beauty queen. She didn't like the pageant scene, (her mother forced her into it), so she got out as soon as she could and has decided to become a private investigator. Her best friend Jerry Fairweather (they've known each other since they were 8) has inherited an old (haunted?) house in a nearby town Celosia from his uncle. He purports to have psychic powers and invites Madeline to come inspect the property with him.Of course, there's a beauty pageant in swing (it's North Carolina after all), and funny things are happening. Jerry, who obviously has family money someplace, has a fiancèe who is a royal pain in the patootee who is not impressed with Celosia, with the old haunted house, and definitely not with Jerry's plan to spruce the place up a bit so he can hold seances there. He also invites Madeline to open an office in the building.Yes...there are definitely some "you gotta be kidding me" swings to the story, but it works! It's fun, the mystery is just intriguing enough to keep you turning pages, and the ending is just tempting enough to make me pick up the second one to see if xxxxx happens.