{"id":347,"date":"2007-03-11T15:07:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=347"},"modified":"2015-07-10T21:12:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:12:25","slug":"mystery_who_kil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/mystery_who_kil.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: &#8220;Who Killed the Curate?&#8221; by Joan Coggin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents gave me this for Christmas (along with <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/01\/great_black_kan.html\">this<\/A>) both selections from <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ruemorguepress.com\/\">The Rue Morgue Press<\/A>, a small publishing house in Colorado that&#8217;s reprinting old mysteries from the 30s and 40s.  (I&#8217;ve now got an entire list I need to order!!)<\/p>\n<p>A completely ditzy-blonde society deb-type marries a vicar, moves to his small-town, and finds herself embroiled in mystery when his curate is murdered on Christmas Eve.  There&#8217;s illegitimate children and blackmail and poison and a secret service agent&#8230;and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>Quick easy read.  Lots of fun!  If you like old mysteries (Agatha Christie?) or new mysteries written like those of old (Jacqueline Winspear or the Laurie King Russell\/Holmes series) then you need to check out the offerings from The Rue Morgue!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents gave me this for Christmas (along with this) both selections from The Rue Morgue Press, a small publishing house in Colorado that&#8217;s reprinting old mysteries from the 30s and 40s. (I&#8217;ve now got an entire list I need &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/03\/mystery_who_kil.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3025,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions\/3025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}