Dorothy Cannell
Dorothy Cannell (born 1943) is an English-American mystery writer. Biography Dorothy Cannell was born in London, England. She moved to the United States in 1963 at the age of 20. She married Julian Cannell in 1964 and they lived in Peoria, Illinois, for many years before moving to Belfast, Maine. She is a mother of four and a grandmother of ten. Bibliography Cannell writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator, and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency. Her first Ellie Haskell novel, The Thin Woman, was selected as one of the "100 Favorite Mysteries of the Twentieth Century" by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Ellie Haskell series The Thin Woman (1984) The Widow's Club (1988) Mum's the Word (1990) Femmes Fatal (1992) How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law (1994) How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams (1995) The Spring Cleaning Murders (1998) The Trouble with Harriet (1999) Bridesmaids Revisited (2000) The Importance of Being Ernestine (2002) Withering Heights (2007) Goodbye, Ms. Chips (2008) She Shoots to Conquer (2009) Other novels and collections Down The Garden Path (1985) God Save the Queen (1997) Naked Came