Cynthia Riggs
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[2018]
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A wedding on picturesque Martha's Vineyard promises to be the affair of the season when Penny Arbuthnot asks her cousin, feisty 92-year-old poet Victoria Trumbull, if she can use her property for the reception. Victoria agrees-but she has no idea what's in store for the hapless couple. For one, Penny is seriously in debt and desperate to marry money. She thinks she's on the road to riches when she hooks Rocco Bufano, whose father is a multi-billionaire....
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2017.
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"When 92-year-old poet/sleuth Victoria Trumbull takes her city-bred tenant Zack Zeller on a nature walk on one of Martha's Vineyard's conservation areas and shows him a mushroom she calls black trumpet of death, he's sure he's found the way to rid himself of his troublesome girlfriend, Samantha. But the mushrooms he's given Samantha end up on her daddy's dinner table, and Zack, one of the invited guests, is sure he's doomed the diners to an untimely...
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2003.
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Victoria Trumbull may be ninety-two, but she is as sharp as the proverbial tack. So when she is the only one to spot something amiss in the town cemetery, the police chief listens. Something is indeed amiss. First comes a request to disinter a coffin for reburying elsewhere. Then things go wrong from there.
4) Indian pipes
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[2006]
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Victoria Trumbull, ninety-two-year-old native of Marthas Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of the cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but its too late-the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant to see whether a sites soil could support a sewage system for a possible casino. The police call it an accident,...
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[2001]
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In this series debut by newcomer Riggs, 92-year-old Victoria Trumbull's keen hearing results in the discovery of a mutilated body in the harbor at Martha's Vineyard. But granddaughter Elizabeth, who works in the harbor office, and her boss, an ex-New York cop named Domingo, realize that the murderer may now target Victoria as a witness. Because the victim had ties to several town officials, the murder has ramifications that may affect the harbor office...