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A Little Learning is the third in the series featuring former beauty queen and fledgling private investigator Madeline Maclin. This time, Madeline is concerned that quiet small town life isn't enough for her husband, Jerry, who's given up his cons and schemes (but not his phony seances).

She becomes involved with the mysterious death of Amelia Lever, an unpopular teacher at Celosia Elementary School, even as Nathan Fenton hires Madeline to help solve a riddle left to him by late Uncle Elijah, a man who loved to play games.

Are the teacher's death and this strange riddle somehow related? "A little learning" turns out to be a dangerous thing for everyone involved.

Past Series Titles:

"On this nice July morning in Parkland, North Carolina, the office of Madeline Maclin Investigations might as well have been an Egyptian tomb: hot, dusty, and dead."
 
It doesn’t help that her landlord Reid Kent, does a brisk business…and briskly hits on Mac to rejoin his agency. He maintains no one will hire a former Miss Parkland as a serious PI.

Mac has been friends forever with Jerry Fairweather. Jerry claims to be psychic and is, unlike his two brothers, somewhat screwy. And he refuses to claim a share in the Fairweather fortune. But he shares some good news with Mac—his Uncle Val has died and left him a house.
 
The two friends drive out to Celosia, a half hour away, where they discover a local beauty pageant in trouble and a house just perfect for setting up shop. A Psychic Shop.
 
The arrival of lawyer Olivia, Jerry's shark-like girlfriend, rouses both Mac's interest in the mystery at the pageant and the one in her own heart.

And then comes the first murder….

A Case of Imagination is Jane Tesh's playful first mystery, the start of a series by an author who admires Terry Pratchett, Martha Grimes, Carl Hiaasen, and P.G. Wodehouse.
 
A Hard Bargain is the second in the Maclin Investigations series, continuing the saga of Mac and Jerry, along with more murder, more mystery and more beauty-queen mayhem!