Murder Can Depress Your Dachshund

by Selma Eichler

Book Overview

On the day before Jordy Mills was going to donate a kidney to save his brother Cornell's life, he was shot to death. Without donor, Cornell tragically committed suicide. Looking into the lives of these two brothers, Manhattan P.I. Desiree Shapiro has discovered that one's a saint, the other's a sinner, and someone wanted them both dead.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451220609
• ISBN13: 9780451220608
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Signet Book
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.3" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

unique detective

I liked this mystery, because it of its uniqueness. It differentiates itself by having an overweight female detective, who doesn't specialize in getting beat up or beating others up. But that is not to say that it is an easy solve. Also her friends and boyfriend are interesting characters that add dimension.

Enjoyable book

If you like this series, then you will enjoy this book. I have read most all of the books in this series and although I like a few of the earlier ones better, I still thought it was enjoyable and Desiree is a fun as ever. This is a fun mystery - great for summer reading.

Enough With the Notes Already :0

Finding what I call a "sophisticated cozy," is often a challenge. This is my first in this series, and it didn't dumb-down the mystery too much. Good characters and an interesting plot. I am concerned, based on one of the other reviews, that the series may become formulaic, but I will order more. Besides most authors of mystery series have a formula. No matter who you read, after a while, you get tired and need to switch up. My only criticism had to do with the notes. My goodness, she spends HOURS transcribing her notes. That is a little unbelievable. The interviews aren't that long. Fill that time with something else, Desiree. Maybe it's a ploy to close loose ends: Eureka! The answer was in my NOTES. Whatever. This isn't rocket science. We who like uncomplicated mysteries are going to have to take a little imperfection. This book was fun. I recommend it and will visit with Desiree again.

This series is fun

There is nothing profound about this series, and the mysteries are not highly mysterious, but it is a great deal of fun. Time spent in Desiree's company is always enjoyable.

delightfully wacky

I tremendously enjoy Eichler's wacky, chubby, citified detective, Desiree Shapiro and the off-beat characters with which Eichler's books are populated. Isnt' it fun how "gossip" helps Desiree solve things? This series remains in a category of mysteries that continue to engage my tastes -- which are tired and sick to death of the hardbitten, violent, and oversexed gumshoes that still inhabit too many of our mystery novels. This current one lives up to those criteria and I enjoyed the story, about which I will not comment any more so as not to impinge on your enjoyment of it.