The Augusta McKee Mysteries
The Case of the Slain Soprano
One-time opera singer Augusta McKee, professor of music on two college campuses, is successfully navigating her busy life in stiletto-shod feet—until she comes up against a shocking road block.
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The Augusta McKee Mystery Series: Books 1-3
a 50ish, independent, no-nonsense voice teacher in spike heels. Tough and tender, ahead of her time, and smart as all get-out, Augusta teaches at two Cincinnati colleges in the 1960s.
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The Case of the Chrysanthemum Murders
–And more important, are the two remaining members in danger?
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The Case of the Unearthed Evidence
Cincinnati, October 1918-- As the Spanish influenza rages around the world, a body is buried behind a residence in an upscale neighborhood and concealed from discovery. What a perfect time to hide a crime …
Cincinnati, October 1965-- Fritz, the irrepressible six-month-old puppy belonging to Professor of Music Augusta McKee and her husband of six months, Homicide Detective Malcolm Mitchell, digs up a human bone in a neighbor’s yard where a flagstone patio is being replaced. An investigation quickly determines a body was buried there forty-seven years earlier—in 1918.
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The Case of the ‘Carousel’ Killer
Augusta McKee, amateur sleuth, professor of music, and former opera singer, is invited to perform in the musical Carousel at the Pocono Playhouse in Northeastern Pennsylvania. With the encouragement of her husband, Cincinnati P.D. Homicide Detective Malcolm Mitchell, she accepts this chance to be on a stage again, in an area where she spent happy summers as a child experiencing the beauty of the mountains and the Delaware Water Gap.
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The Case of the Bogus Beatle
After an eventful Beatles concert at Crosley Field, threatening (and badly-spelled) ransom notes begin appearing from unknown persons claiming to have kidnapped George Harrison. But the Beatles’ lead guitarist is not missing. The puzzled police, including Sergeant Malcolm Mitchell, at first dismiss the messages as a bizarre hoax.
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The Case of the Casanova Cantor
Eugene Geller, the handsome and popular Cantor of Rockdale Temple—located in the racially tense Avondale neighborhood of Cincinnati—disappears without a trace during a night of rioting in the “long, hot summer” of 1967. Was Gene a casualty of the riot? Has he run away with one of his paramours? Or has he been the victim of foul play by his long-suffering wife or an angry ex-lover or a jealous husband?
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The Case of the Ill-Fated Philanthropist
Augusta McKee, former opera singer and now a voice teacher at two colleges, and her husband, Captain of Detectives Malcolm Mitchell, stop by the private box of a friend in Cincinnati's Music Hall following a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah, only to discover multi-millionaire and philanthropist Tobias Dietrich has died. He seems at peace, and all indications point to natural causes, but not everyone is fully convinced.
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