Till Murder Do Us Part: A Marlow O'Kelley Mystery

Barbara Ewing

dic 2001 · Xlibris Corporation

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No one suspects murder when astronaut Pete O'Kelley dies a hit-run accident—until his widow, Marlow, learns he had deposited a quarter of a million bucks in a bank account and spent it all in four months.  Then Pete's executor, a NASA administrator, is found dead on a picnic table at the Johnson Space Center, a meat cleaver planted in his back.  Not wanting to tell anyone about the money, but knowing the deaths are connected, Marlow turns sleuth to track down a bold killer who leaves no clues.  Despite painful revelations, she must dig out the truth about her brief, turbulent marriage and about Pete's death.

 In this first of a mystery series, Marlow O'Kelley, an irreverent structural engineer who renovates homes for rich Texans, battles police and NASA poobahs as she untangles the intrigue surrounding the players who would kill to win a multimillion-dollar government contract.

 Fast paced and tightly plotted, Till Murder Do Us Part is a riveting, brain-teasing murder mystery.

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Barbara Ewing was born in 1944 in New Zealand. She is a playwright and novelist. she graduated from Victoria University of Wellington with a BA in English and Maori before coming to Britain in 1965 to train as an actress at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. She made her film debut in the horror film Torture Garden (1967), followed by Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) with Christopher Lee. Her other films included The Reckoning (1969), Eye of the Needle (1981) and When the Whales Came (1989). The television role for which she is best remembered is that of Bradley Hardacre's mistress Agnes Fairchild in the Granada Television comedy series Brass. More recent TV appearances have included episodes of Casualty, Doctors and Holby City on the BBC, and The Bill and Peak Practice on ITV. Her written works include: Strangers, The Mesmerist, The Fraud, and The Petticoat Men. In 2015 she made the shortlist for the Ngaio Marsh Award with The Petticoat Men.