title: High Rhymes and Misdemeanors: A Poetic Death Mystery (Poetic Death Mysteries)
author:  Diana Killian 
description: "A cross between James Bond and Romancing the Stone.There is action, action and more action in this light-hearted tongue-in-cheek thriller." -- <i>Books n Bytes</i><br /><br />"Funny, clever and a cast of characters that will leave you laughing till the last page." -- <i>TheBestReviews.com</i><br /><br />...a lot of fun and very witty and winsome. I was won over. Diana Killian knows her setting.... -- <i>G. Miki Hayden, author of</i><br /><br />Funny, clever and a cast of characters that will leave you laughing till the last page. -- <i>TheBestReviews.com</i><br /><br />Ms. Killian's light, charming novel is filled with wonderful characters....an entertaining romp through a beautiful part of Britain. -- <i>Dallas Morning News</i><br /><br />The landscape is filled with detail that will transport readers....a fun outing for literary mystery fans.... -- <i>The Mystery Reader</i>
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  KELLY BARNHILL
  
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  ALGONQUIN BOOKS OF CHAPEL HILL
  
  2018
  
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   _To the Ladies of the Sewing Guild_  
  (and you know who you are)  
  this volume is lovingly dedicated.
  
   _Table of Contents_
  
  Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch
  
  Open the Door and The Light Pours Through
  
  The Dead Boy’s Last Poem
  
  Dreadful Young Ladies
  
  The Taxidermist’s Other Wife
  
  Elegy to Gabrielle—Patron Saints of Healers, Whores and Righteous Thieves
  
  Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake
  
  The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story
  
  The Unlicensed Magician
  
   _Acknowledgments_
  
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  The day she buried her husband—a good man, by all accounts, though shy, not
  given to drink or foolishness; not one for speeding tickets or illegal parking
  or cheating on his taxes; not one for carousing at the county fair, or
  tomcatting with the other men from the glass factory; which is to say, he was
  utterly