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Carolyn Hart [1936-]
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	Annie Laurance, a mystery book store owner, and Max Darling, investigator, in Broward’s Rock, South Carolina, in the Death on Demand series:
	Death on Demand (1987) Finalist 1988 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Finalist 1988 Macavity Award for Best First Novel Design for Murder (1987) Something Wicked (1988) 1988 Agatha Award for Best Novel 1989 Anthony Award for Best Paperback Honeymoon with Murder (1988) 1990 Anthony Award for Best Paperback A Little Class on Murder (1989) 1990 Macavity Award for Best Novel Finalist 1989 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1990 Anthony Award for Best Mystery Deadly Valentine (1990) Finalist 1990 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1991 Macavity Award for Best Novel The Christie Caper (1991) Finalist 1991 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1992 Macavity Award for Best Novel Southern Ghost (1992) Finalist 1992 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1993 Anthony Award for Best Mystery	The Mint Julep Murder (1995) Yankee Doodle Dead (1998) White Elephant Dead (1999) Sugar Plum Dead (2000) April Fool Dead (2002) Engaged To Die (2003) Murder Walks the Plank (2004) Death of the Party (2005) Dead Days of Summer (2006) Death Walked In (2008) Dare To Die (2009)
	Henrietta O’Dwyer Collins, a 70-something reporter in South Carolina:
	Dead Man’s Island (1993) 1993 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1994 Macavity Award for Best Novel Scandal in Fair Haven (1994) Finalist 1994 Agatha Award for Best Novel Finalist 1995 Macavity Award for Best Novel Death in Lovers’ Lane (1996) Death in Paradise (1999)	Death on the River Walk (1999) Finalist 1999 Agatha Award for Best Novel Resort to Murder (2001) Set Sail for Murder (2007)
	Bailey Ruth Raeburn, who dies during a storm and then returns as a ghost to help solve crime in her hometown of Adelaide, Oklahoma:
	Ghost at Work (2008)	Merry, Merry Ghost (2009)