Welcome
Diane Gilbert Madsen is the Author of A CADGER’S CURSE, the first book in the DD McGil LITERATI Mystery series, published by MIDNIGHT INK. The second book in the series, HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY, will be out in 2010, also published by MIDNIGHT INK.
The DD McGil Literati Mystery Series
The DD McGil Literati Mystery Series features DD McGil, Insurance Investigator, probing the true mysteries and secrets that famous authors have in their past. The series gives readers an intriguing blend of mystery and history. If you think you know all there is to know about Robert Burns or Ernest Hemingway, you’ll discover some interesting – and deadly – mysteries afoot – all set in today’s world of academic and corporate treachery.
Publishers Weekly Review 9/29/09
A Cadger’s Curse: A DD McGil Literati Mystery
Diane Gilbert Madsen. Midnight Ink (www.midnightinkbooks.com), $14.95 paper (336p)
ISBN 978-0-7387-1892-7 -
Madsen’s promising debut, the first in a new cozy series set in Chicago, introduces DD McGil, a 38-year-old freelance insurance investigator and former English professor who’s a whiz at breaking and entering. Two days before Christmas, a case takes DD to a computer company, HI-Data, where she stumbles on the corpse of Ken Gordon, a partner at HI-Data who happens to be the half brother of DD’s late fiancé, who apparently jumped to his death from a high balcony. Since DD despised Ken, she fears the police will suspect her of murder. Meanwhile, DD’s Aunt Elizabeth (aka the Scottish Dragon) arrives for the holidays with what she claims is a rare Robert Burns manuscript. Tom Joyce, DD’s antiquarian bookseller friend, offers to help with research into the manuscript. Well-drawn characters and a suspenseful plot will leave readers looking forward to the next installment. (Nov.)
A CADGER’S CURSE - THE ROBERT BURNS SECRET
Midnight Ink
November 2009
A Cadger’s Curse – The Robert Burns Secret takes you from an exciting incident in Robert Burns life in the 1700’s to Chicago in the 21st Century. The past meets the present when an artifact worth millions is uncovered. Is it real or is it faked? And who would kill for it? And how is it all connected to the problems at HI-Data and to DD McGil’s dead fiance?
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HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY
Midnight Ink
2010
HUNTING FOR HEMINGWAY is based upon a real incident in Ernest Hemingway’s life when his first wife, Hadley Richardson, lost much of his early work. It was in December, 1922, only a year after they were married, and Hadley packed all his stories and poems in a suitcase that was stolen at the Gare de Lyon railroad station as she boarded a train to take her to meet Hemingway in Switzerland. Although he offered a reward, Hemingway never got any of his work back. What really happened to it?
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