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Come share your passion for great literature and show off your knitting, crocheting, counted cross-stitch, embroidery and quilting works-in-progress.

Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library Meeting Room. Dates: March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 11 and August 8.

Thursday, March 14 - New Location: Main Library Multipurpose Room
Murder at the Vicarage
by Agatha Christie
Miss Jane Marple, spinster sleuth extraordinaire, is introduced in this first mystery to feature her brilliant talents. Here she must use all her intuitive powers to solve the murder of the detested Colonel Protheroe when he is found shot in the local vicar's study.

Thursday, April 11
A Man Lay Dead
by Ngaio Marsh
Scotland Yard's Inspector Roderick Alleyn arrives at Sir Hubert Handesley's country house party only to discover a real corpse has appeared during the guests' parlor game of "Murder."

Thursday, May 9
The Nine Tailors
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Tale of suspense in which the famous Lord Peter Wimsey is called upon to solve the murder of an unknown man in East Anglia.

Thursday, June 13
The Crime at Black Dudley
by Margery Allingham
When the guests at an old country house in Suffolk decide to test the sanguineous legend of the Black Dudley dagger, the fatal outcome results in Albert Campion's confrontation with the century's most diabolic criminal mind.

Thursday, July 11
Portobello
by Ruth Rendell
Walking to the shops one day in London's Notting Hill, fifty-year-old Eugene Wren discovers an envelope on the street bulging with cash. A man plagued by a shameful addiction, Wren hatches a plan to find the money's rightful owner. Instead of going to the police, or taking the cash for himself, he prints a notice and posts it around Portobello Road. This ill-conceived act creates a chain of events that links Wren to other Londoners--people afflicted with their own obsessions and despairs. As these volatile characters come into Wren's life--and the life of his trusting fiancee--the consequences will change them all.

Thursday, August 8
Time to Be in Earnest
by P.D. James
Based on the diary she kept for years, a candid autobiography of mystery writer P.D. James retraces her life from her school days in 1930s Cambridge to her membership in the House of Lords and her success as a writer.