This document provides a list of authors and their mystery series featuring senior sleuths or protagonists. It includes the author's name, series title if applicable, a brief one to three sentence description of each series, and sometimes additional details like the setting or protagonists' ages. In total, over 30 different mystery series featuring senior detectives or elderly main characters are summarized.
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List of authors whose protatonists are senior sleuths
This document provides a list of authors and their mystery series featuring senior sleuths or protagonists. It includes the author's name, series title if applicable, a brief one to three sentence description of each series, and sometimes additional details like the setting or protagonists' ages. In total, over 30 different mystery series featuring senior detectives or elderly main characters are summarized.
This document provides a list of authors and their mystery series featuring senior sleuths or protagonists. It includes the author's name, series title if applicable, a brief one to three sentence description of each series, and sometimes additional details like the setting or protagonists' ages. In total, over 30 different mystery series featuring senior detectives or elderly main characters are summarized.
NC vegetable farmer Elizabeth Marshall The Puzzle Lady series “Most of the folks are friendly—a few are deadly—and it’s not always easy to know which is which.” James Melville Superintendent Otani series Mike Befeler Set in Japan Retirement Homes Are Murder Octogenarian Paul Jacobson Gretchen Sprague Widowed lawyer Martha Patterson Rita Lakin Edgar winner for YA Signpost to Terror Gladdy Gold series “Getting Old is…” Florida retirement community Irene Allen Yiddish profanities Elizabeth Elliott, devout Quaker “The Golden Girls meets Murder She Wrote” Recently elected clerk of Quaker Meeting - Harvard Square Edith Pinero Green Dearborn V. Pinch Cynthia Riggs Hot-tempered Edwardian relic, a dandy in his 70’s Victoria Trumbull series Feisty 92-year old Elizabeth Daniels Squire Ardent gardener Peaches Dann, sleuth with no memory Martha’s Vineyard
Peter Abresch D. B. Borton
Elderhostel series Detective-in training & real estate entrepreneur Cat Jim Dandy & Dodee Swisher Caliban series Newsletter@ElderhostelMysteries.com Cincinnati Currently in reprint Jane Isenberg Menopausal sleuth Bel Barrett Anne George Set in community college Southern Sisters series Books available in large print Robert W. Walker Gar Anthony Haywood Instinct series (FBI medical examiner Dr. Jessica Coran) Joe & Dottie Lowdermilk Edge series - Texas Cherokee Det. Lucas Stonecoat & Retired cop & English teacher “in flight from their 5 psychiatrist Meredyth Sanger troublesome grown children” (Haywood’s web site) City for Ransom, 2006 & Shadows in the White City, 2007 Bill Crider Stanley Waters series (with Willard Scott) Mary Saums Thistle and Twig Nora Charles aka Noreen Wald “...it’s somewhere between Dorothy Gilman’s Mrs. Pol- Kate Kennedy series lifax mysteries and Nancy Atherton’s Aunt Dimity books.” South Florida Cozy Library 60-? widows—one British, one Southern Joyce Christmas Betty Trenka series Better known for Lady Margaret Priam series