Biggie Weatherford mysteries
Author
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Nancy Bell is a Texan with a flair for small-town mysteries. This popular series features Biggie Weatherford, an amateur sleuth and the richest woman in Job's Crossing. When the town mayor drops dead-face first into his angel food cake-Biggie leads a diverse group in solving this murder despite her personal distaste for the man himself. "A debut novel, Texas-set, that pulls out all the stops in the down-home, good ol' boys, southern-fried chicken...
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Biggie Weatherford, the Miss Marple of Job's Crossing, Texas, is back in this sequel to best-selling author Nancy Bell's hilarious Biggie and the Poisoned Politician (S1085). This time around, Biggie tries to discover who killed the mortician. Shenanigans are afoot in Job's Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks off gay police deputy Butch Jenkins' cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes-until Aunt Vita straightarms Cooter and sits on him. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Nancy Bell adds to a delightful Lone Star series that began with a People Pick of the Week. A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers' chicken restaurant dead under a table-with his gravy-covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her 10-year-old grandson JR investigate the murder. But as the suspect list swells, JR believes Biggie cares more about detecting...
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Author Nancy Bell's popular Biggie series has entertained countless fans as Biggie and her observant grandson J.R. solve enthralling mysteries in their down home town of Jobs Crossing, Texas. Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone's mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it's no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing abilities in the investigation.
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Nancy Bell's best-selling Biggie series combines Texas small-town humor with tantalizing mysteries. As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost and presents Biggie with a perplexing local murder.
Author
Series
Biggie Weatherford mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
Nancy Bell's popular mystery series combines colorful characters, a small-town setting, down-home Texas humor- and one of the most wildly misnamed sleuths in the genre. A diminutive, shrewd grandmother, "Biggie" Weatherford is an amateur detective and professional collector of gossip. In Biggie and the Devil Diet, she investigates a murder at a weight-loss spa for wealthy teenagers.