Constance Little
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(eng) Constance and Gwenyth Little wrote as a team using both of their names on all books.
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- Little, Constance
Little, Gwenyth - Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Little, Jessie Constance
Little, Norma Gwenyth
Little, Conyth (pseudonym) - Geboortedatum
- 1899 (Constance)
1903 (Gwenyth) - Overlijdensdatum
- 1980 (Constance)
1985 (Gwenyth) - Geslacht
- female
- Geboorteplaats
- Australia
- Plaats van overlijden
- Newton, New Jersey, USA
- Korte biografie
- [from Goodreads website]
Jessie Constance Little (1899-1980) co-authored with her sister Gwenyth Little (1903-1985) mysteries in the screwball-comedy fashion. The Little sisters are referred to as "queens of the wacky cozy." They were sometimes published as Conyth Little, a portmanteau of their names.
Their youngest sister Iris wrote under the pseudonym Robert James.
Constance Little married Lawrence Baker, a men's clothing designer for the Dubois Uniform Company in New York City. - Ontwarringsbericht
- Constance and Gwenyth Little wrote as a team using both of their names on all books.
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- #43,841
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Richard’s two spinster aunts, Ivy & Violet Balron, quarrel about everything. Their most recent quarrel involves who will inherit their indivisible estate; Ivy wants the money to go to Richard, but Violet favors making their step-niece Ada Terry their sole heir. Violet & Ivy come up with a novel solution to their predicament—a variation of Russian roulette. At regular intervals, the two sisters each take a pistol containing a single bullet and fire at one another; the first one to die loses.
When Richard catches them at their deadly little game, he is horrified and quickly concocts a scheme to put an end to his aunts’ foolhardy shenanigans. He asks his nemesis—smart-mouthed, red-headed actress Ada—to acquiesce to a phony, secret engagement; Richard reasons that when Violet & Ivy learn of the impending marriage they will have to give up on killing one another because—as a married couple—both Ada and Richard would inevitably receive the inheritance. Much like their aunts, Ada & Richard are constantly bickering, and their constant tit-for-tat hostility catapults them unwillingly to the altar.
Meanwhile, all sorts of things are disappearing from the aunts’ home: a missing tea set turns up at the local antique store, an unknown dead body vanishes from the parlor, and—eventually—both Ivy & Violet disappear without a trace, too.
When more dead bodies start cropping up in curious places, Richard must look amongst an odd array of friends and neighbors to uncover a motive and unmask a heartless killer.
Exactly the same review can be written about most of the Little Sisters’ series of mysteries: A highly original, fun and quirky plotline is thoroughly ruined by an irritating, nonsensical ‘romance’ and a cast of unnecessarily obnoxious and annoying characters. Typographical errors are commonplace throughout the Rue Morgue Press edition.
The Black Iris is no exception to this rule.… (meer)