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Edgar Award Finalist: On the Philadelphia Main Line, a family of crooks plots a blue-blooded murder.
The Hannaford who made the family fortune called himself a tycoon. The newspapers called him a robber baron. Since the days of Robert Hannaford I, the family has infested Philadelphia society like a disease. The current Hannafords are a clan of embezzlers, gamblers, and fantasy novelists. This Christmas, they have money in their bank accounts, crime in their blood, and murder on their minds. Gregor Demarkian is their reluctant guest. A former FBI agent who quit the agency after his wife’s death, he is invited by the Hannaford patriarch to come for dinner at the family mansion. Demarkain arrives just in time to find his host bludgeoned to death in his study and his investigation will lead him to the Hannafords, a family of cold-blooded killers.
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- Published on: 2013-03-05
- Released on: 2013-03-05
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From Publishers Weekly
Under the Hadden pseudonym, Orania Papazoglou ( Sweet Savage Death ) introduces Gregor Demarkian, a retired FBI agent drawn into private sleuthing. Gregor has never met wealthy eccentric Robert Hannaford but has ample incentive (an offer of $100,000 for Gregor's church) to join Christmas Eve dinner at the Hannaford mansion. Show up, eat and take the money--that's it, says Robert. But when Gregor arrives, he finds Hannaford's corpse in the study. Robert had regarded his children as "dangerous idiots," but which one might be dangerous enough to commit murder: Myra and Bobby, who are picking up spare cash through insider trading at Hannaford Financial; Teddy, about to be fired from his college teaching post for plagiarism and sexual harassment; this is correct/pk Bennis, the fantasy writer; Chris, who has to pay off a gambling debt of $75,000; Anne Marie, who has run the family house and cared for her chronically ill mother; or actress Emma, baby of the family, said to have already made an attempt on her father's life? This is a promising first volume in a series featuring Demarkian.
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“A promising first volume.” —Publishers Weekly “Haddam plays the mystery game like a master.” —Chicago Tribune “Classic mysteries are back in vogue, and Jane Haddam’s . . . Gregor Demarkian series is one of the finest.” —Romantic Times Book Reviews
About the Author
Jane Haddam (b. 1951) is an American author of mysteries. Born Orania Papazoglou, she worked as a college professor and magazine editor before publishing her Edgar Award–nominated first novel, Sweet, Savage Death, in 1984. This mystery introduced Patience McKenna, a sleuthing scribe who would go on to appear in four more books, including Wicked, Loving Murder (1985) and Rich, Radiant Slaughter (1988). Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990) introduced Haddam’s best-known character, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian. The series spans more than twenty novels, many of them holiday-themed, including Murder Superior (1993), Fountain of Death (1995), and Wanting Sheila Dead (2005). Haddam’s most recent novels are Blood in the Water (2012) and Hearts of Sand (2013).
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful.
Introducing Gregor Demarkian and Cavanaugh Street.
By Michele L. Worley
After losing his wife Elizabeth to cancer, Gregor has taken early retirement from the FBI, and has returned to his old neighbourhood in Philadelphia in time for Christmas. Just as he's adapting to the urban renewal that has revamped Cavanaugh Street, he finds that his old reputation won't leave him alone...
Father Tibor, Cavanaugh Street's Armenian Orthodox parish priest, has been approached by Robert Hannaford, with a proposition for Gregor. If Gregor will attend a family dinner at Engine House, Hannaford's mansion on the Main Line, Hannaford will make a generous donation to Father Tibor's church. Why would an old-money, elderly financier want an expert on poisons and serial murder to attend a quiet Christmas dinner with his wife and grown children?
Gregor's boredom with his retirement is cured, as he reaches Engine House to find the police investigating Hannaford's murder.
This is the first Demarkian Holiday Mystery (Christmas) and introduces Bennis Hannaford (one of Robert's daughters) and her dysfunctional family. The cast of characters of Cavanaugh Street introduced here includes Father Tibor (who escaped from the Soviet Union in the bad old days of the 1980s) and Donna Moradanyan. Donna's boyfriend, Peter, has disappeared since Donna became pregnant, so Gregor is enlisted to find Peter for her as the Hannaford case unfolds.
There are a number of interesting subplots, not necessarily related to the murder; at least one for each of Hannaford's seven children. Anne Marie, the only one of the seven still living at Engine House, is falling apart while taking care of their mother, who is dying of multiple schlerosis. Chris and Bobby might both qualify as compulsive gamblers, in different ways, while Teddy has gambled (and lost) that his university's faculty would never find out that he's been plagiarizing his students' work. And so on...
Haddam (a.k.a. Orania Papazoglou) concentrates on character development in this volume, particularly Bennis' family background (which is essential to the plot). If necessary, you can read the other books first, since she's careful not to name the killer in the other volumes of the series, even when discussing the events of this volume, but this one really should be read first. Cavanaugh Street changes over time, since the breakup of the Soviet Union and the consequent liberation of Armenia as an independent nation occurred while the earlier volumes were being written, and a number of immigrants move to the neighbourhood as a result.
Should definitely be read before _Feast of Murder_ and _Bleeding Hearts_, since a few of the suspects for Robert Hannaford's murder can be eliminated if you've read them prior to _Not a Creature Was Stirring_.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Not a Creature was Stirring
By S Riaz
I am absolutely delighted to see that Jane Haddam has finally arrived on kindle! This novel, "Not a Creature was Stirring", is the very first in her long-running Gregor Demarkian series, which I read when first published in 1990 and it remains one of my favourites. When we meet Gregor Demarkian he is a fifty five year old man, retired after twenty years at the FBI. His beloved wife, Elizabeth, is dead - Demarkian had retired mainly to care for her - and now he is a man without purpose. He has returned to his childhood Armenian ethnic neighbourhood in Philadelphia and this place, Cavanaugh Street, and his neighbours are all very important to Demarkian's character and the books. In many ways, this novel really sets the scene for a series which becomes (like all good series) filled with characters who seem like old friends.
Of course, this first novel also introduces the important character of Bennis Hannaford, whose family are wealthy, influential and extremely dysfunctional. When Robert Hannaford, father of Bennis and her six siblings, contacts Father Tibor (an eccentric Armenian priest) and asks him to arrange for Gregor Demarkian to attend a dinner at his family home, events are set in motion which end in murder. When Demarkian is asked to act as a consultant in the case, he finds a reason to go on living.
Sadly, not all the books in this series are currently on kindle, although I hope that they will eventually appear. The series in order is as follows:
Gregor Demarkian
1. Not a Creature Was Stirring (1990)
2. Precious Blood (1991)
3. Act of Darkness (1991)
4. Quoth the Raven (1991)
5. A Great Day for the Deadly (1992)
6. A Feast of Murder (1992)
7. A Stillness in Bethlehem (1992)
8. Murder Superior (1993)
9. Dear Old Dead (1994)
10. Festival of Deaths (1994)
11. Bleeding Hearts (1994)
12. Fountain of Death (1995)
13. And One to Die On (1996)
14. Baptism in Blood (1996)
15. Deadly Beloved (1997)
16. Skeleton Key (2000)
17. True Believers (2001)
18. Somebody Else's Music (2002)
19. Conspiracy Theory (2003)
20. The Headmaster's Wife (2005)
21. Hardscrabble Road (2006)
22. Glass Houses (2007)
23. Cheating At Solitaire (2008)
24. Living Witness (2009)
25. Wanting Sheila Dead (2010)
26. Flowering Judas (2011)
27. Blood in the Water (2012)
28. Hearts of Sand (2013)
The next book on kindle is Act of Darkness (The Gregor Demarkian Holiday Mysteries), although the second book is actually "Precious Blood". Although the books are all stand alone stories and can be read as such, it is always best to read a series such as this, with lots of familiar characters who appear in many books, in order. However, I am not complaining - I have waited a long while to replace my beloved, tattered paperbacks (which I will still keep, but which are falling apart) on kindle. Also, as many of Jane Haddam's earlier books are now out of print, hopefully this will enable new readers to discover the delights of one of my favourite fictional detectives. Jane Haddam also has another series, Patience McKenna, the first book of which is Sweet, Savage Death (The Patience McKenna Mysteries).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
First Book in a thoughtful, character-driven series
By D. R. Meredith
Not a Creature Was StirringThe introductory volume of Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian series succeeds admirabley in the goals all first books in a series must do. She introduces Gregor Demarkian, her Armenian-American detective,by skillfully adding details about his background, his relationships with Father Tibor and others who live in the ethnic Armenian neighborhood, and revealing certain of his personal beliefs, all without turning the information into an indigestible lump of facts the reader is supposed to swallow all at once. In other words, Gregor and Father Tibor and the wonderful Bennis expose their flaws and strengths slowly over the course of the story, and over the course of the series. That's the way it ought to be done.
The time is the Christmas holiday (Haddam uses various holidays as a plot device in her early books)and the place is Cavanaugh Street in Philadelphia, and the Hannaford mansion in what is called the Main Line, home to old amd very plentiful money. Gregor, a retired FBI profiler and hunter of serial killers, is asked to Christmas Eve dinner by patriarch Robert Hannaford. Gregor is very suspicous of the invitation, but he is bored and, besides, Hannaford has promised Father Tibor's church $100,000 if Gregor accepts. Gregor arrives at the Hannaford estate in time to find himself temporarily a suspect in Robert Hannaford's murder, along with the seven Hannaford children, several of whom are unsavory characters to say the least.
Finally dismissed as a suspect, Gregor joins the investagation as an independent consultant. Who murdered Robert Hannaford in his own home, and why did he suspect one of his children of attempting to murder him years before?
A well-written tale, with subtle observations on religion and politics that will be missed if one doesn't allow time to really savor Gregor's world. If you enjoy regional or ethnic mysteries, don't miss this richly textured series.
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