K. K. Beck
Autor(a) de A Hopeless Case
About the Author
Kathrine Kristine Beck was born in Seattle, Washington, on September 22, 1950. She received a B.A. from San Francisco State University. Before becoming a full-time mystery writer, Beck wrote advertising copy and edited a trade magazine. At one point she also sold radio air time, an experience she mostrar mais was later to include in We Interrupt this Broadcast, a mystery set in a small, classical radio station. Beck's mysteries are usually written in a light-hearted vein. Her first mystery, Death in a Deck Chair, is an entertaining period piece set in the 1920s on a transatlantic ocean liner. The two main characters from that book, debutante college student Iris Cooper and brash young reporter Jack Clancy, reappear in some of her later books, including Murder in a Mummy Case and Peril Under the Palms. Another recurring character is Jane da Silva, a middle-aged widow who becomes involved with various mysteries after she inherits her uncle's estate and, along with it, his business, which was helping desperate people find a solution to their problems. Books in this series include A Hopeless Case and Amateur Night. Other books by Beck include The Revenge of Kali-Ra; Bad Neighbors; Cold Smoked; Electric City; Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men; Unwanted Attentions; Without a Trace; Death of a Prom Queen, which was written under the pseudonym Marie Oliver, and The Tell-Tale Tattoo. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) aka Marie Oliver
Séries
Obras de K. K. Beck
Island Girl 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Malice Domestic 2: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1993) — Contribuinte — 99 cópias
Malice Domestic 4: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1995) — Contribuinte — 56 cópias
Dead Man's Mooring | Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men | A Nice Little Business (1988) 1 exemplar(es)
Murder at the Gardner | Think Fast, Mr. Peters | The Body in the Volvo — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Beck, K. K.
- Nome de batismo
- Marris, Kathrine Kristine Beck
- Outros nomes
- Oliver, Marie
- Data de nascimento
- 1950
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Seattle, Washington, USA
- Ocupação
- novelist
short story writer - Relacionamentos
- Dibdin, Michael (husband|widowed)
- Aviso de desambiguação
- aka Marie Oliver
Membros
Resenhas
The revenge of Kali-Ra de K. K. Beck
A serviceable plot, film star reads b-movie type book, wants to make the movie, complications ensue. Just don't think the author goes far enough with it. If you're going to do a pastiche, go all in, like in the Abyerystwth books of Malcolm Price. One crazed fan stalking a couple of people didn't make it odd enough, for my taste. Did feel author did a good job piecing everything together and tying up lose ends.
grocer's grandson kills to protect inheritance
Met K. K. Beck at a writers conference in the Northwest. Someone mentioned the book was good so I bought it. Humour as well as mystery. Worth it if you can still find it.
Opal Whitely grew up in small logging towns in late 19th-century Oregon, gained regional fame as a nature-lover and teacher of young children, and went on to reinvent herself as an orphan, a victim of child abuse, the secret daughter of daughter of Henri, Prince of Orléans, and the child bride of the Prince of Wales. During the course of her adventures she published two books, was kidnapped by a very weird group of rich theosophists, tried to seduce Amelia Earhart's husband, and had a steamy sex scandal with a swami who turned out to be a fellow con-artist.
[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2014/07/opal-life-of-enchantment-mystery-and.html ]… (mais)
[full review here: http://spacebeer.blogspot.com/2014/07/opal-life-of-enchantment-mystery-and.html ]… (mais)
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