Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead

by Livia J. Washburn

Book Overview

No one is surprised when feisty Delilah Dickinson opens her literary travel agency in Atlanta after her divorce. But during her first group's tour of an old plantation modelled after Tara from Gone... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0758225679
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Kensington
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 0.8" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

A Good Start For A New Series.... Reviewer: Sucker For Freebies.

No, This book wasn't free, but the second book in the series was and I read that one first. I wanted to read this one because the author didn't give too much of Delilah's backstory and I felt all the way through "Huckleberry Finished" that I was missing something. Unfortunately, book I was no better at filling in Delilah's background. Still do not know why or how she got divorced, or much about her daughter or her sister, the mother of the twin nieces that figure in this book. We do learn a little bit more about Delilah's son-in-law Luke, who is a fairly major player in the plot. As for that, I thought this book did alittle better than the second one in laying out the clues, giving an observant reader a pretty fair shot at figuring out who the murderer was. On the whole, I thought this was a better book than the second, and am hoping that the third in the series will live up to that standard. I enjoyed this one and will definitely be on board for the next Literary Tour.

A very nice start to a series

I really enjoyed this book. It's a nice easy read and it really did have just enough, for me anyway, intrigue and suspects to keep me guessing for a few chapters. I love the backdrop of the literary tour theme. I would love to go on one some day myself. I got this book because the second in the series after this one was offered free for the Kindle a few months back and I wanted to read them in order. I'm glad I took the plunge and bought this one. There was one typo that I saw in the Kindle version of this book, but it was only one. Also, there were a few times that the sentences were not logically correct, but you knew what the author meant so it wasn't bad. For this light genre, it's a winner of a book.

Frankly My Dear, this book is a scream!

This book combines my two loves: literature and living history tourism! Livia J. Washburn has a wicked sense of humor, and I just can't wait to read everything else that she's written. Just the idea of this series tickles me! This is a fun read not to be missed, and I'm very glad that I purchased it.

What a fun concept: A Literary Tour series

The first in a charming new literary tour series, Frankly My Dear, I'm Dead is set in Atlanta and of course focuses on... Margaret Mitchell and Gone with the Wind! In addition to interesting facts about Mitchell and her book, there are fascinating and amusing characters, like Delilah Dickinson, owner of a new travel business, where she is assisted by her daughter Melissa and son-in-law Luke. This story also features her twin 16-year-old nieces, Augusta and Amelia. This tour of Margaret Mitchell's Atlanta is the first for her business, and she encounters only one small fight before the disastrous visit to a nearby plantation. With actors in costume portraying various characters from the story, in a period three-story mansion made to look a bit more like Tara than it might have originally, the tour members are charmed and delighted. Delighted until "Rhett" is found stabbed in the garden during the ball, and everyone discovers their valuables have been stolen: wallets, cell phones, cameras, you name it. The actors cannot leave the mansion, must join the tourists overnight, and so everyone doubles up on rooms. Delilah hopes to solve the murder so everyone can leave after breakfast as planned. However local policeman Lieutentant Farraday is not exactly thrilled with Delilah's continual contributions. Local professor Will Burke, in charge of the Tara recreation, is pleased to help Delilah out in her late-night, pajama-clad investigations. Might there be an attraction here? A romance for the recently divorced middle-aged business owner? I am certainly looking forward to future literary tour mysteries with endless possibilities: Capote, Harper Lee, Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Mark Twain... intriguing! Armchair Interviews says: Well done, Livia Washburn.

lively and colorful cozy

In Atlanta divorced (from Dan) Delilah Dickinson opens up Delilah Dickinson's Literary Tours hiring her daughter and son-in-law, and also dealing with her battling twin teenage nieces. Her first tour is a delightful visit to landmarks famous, almost famous and obscure linked to Gone with the Wind novelist Margaret Mitchell. The tour is doomed from the onset as Murphy would seem an optimist with everything the could go wrong going wrong; but it is at "Tara" for dinner that it finally collapses. Steven Kelley, an actor portraying Rhett Butler on the Gone with the Wind Tour, is found dead in the Tara mansion garden. The lead detective insists everyone remain at Tara while he solves the case with Delilah's interference. With its references to Gone with the Wind including the title, readers will enjoy this Atlanta tour. The story line is amusing as a combo police procedural amateur sleuth competition. Although the whodunit is more a backdrop to the Literary Tour especially the stay at Tara, readers will enjoy this lively and colorful cozy. Harriet Klausner