Marianne Macdonald (born July 9, 1934 in

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) is a Canadian children's books author and novelist best known for her mystery series featuring London antiques bookstore owner and amateur investigator Dido Hoare. Main themes of the Dido Hoare novels are responsibility and

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, the struggles of a single working mother and a complex and troubled father-daughter relationship.

Work

Dido Hoare Series * ''Death's Autograph'' (1996) * ''Ghost Walk'' (1997) * ''Smoke Screen'' (1999) * ''Road Kill'' (2000) * ''Blood Lies'' (2001) * ''Die Once'' (2002) * ''Three Monkeys'' (2005) * ''Faking It'' (2006) Children's Books * ''Black Bass Rock'' (1952) * ''Smuggler's Cove'' (1955) * ''The Treasure of Ur'' (1958) * ''The Pirate Queen'' (1991) * ''The Eighty-Nine Pennies of Emma Jones'' (1992) * ''The Witch Repair'' (1995) * ''Dragon for Sale'' (1998) Literary Criticism * ''The State of Literary Theory Today (ed.)'' (1982) * ''Ezra Pound: Purpose/Form/Meaning'' (1983) * ''Ezra Pound and History (ed.)'' (1985)

External links

Dido Hoare Series

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1934 births Living people People from Kenora Canadian women novelists 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers Canadian children's writers Canadian women children's writers Canadian mystery writers Women mystery writers {{canada-writer-stub