The Curious Case of Mary Ann by Jenn Thorson

The Curious Case of Mary Ann by Jenn Thorson

Thorson has a brilliant idea in mixing the world of Alice with a murder mystery. The result is a demented but internally consistent detective story. Although tackling a pastiche of a well-loved children's book is a daunting task, Thorson succeeds beautifully. She deftly captures Carroll's absurdity, wordplay, and unsettling strangeness and rings some changes of her own. -Kirkus Reviews

Things that start with the letter M: murder. motives. Mary Ann.

Mary Ann Carpenter, housemaid to Wonderland's White Rabbit, misses all the action when Alice drops into town.

She has her own problems. As witness to the murder of her estranged father, Mary Ann must go under-underground to learn more about the man she barely knew and the motives for his death. But the more she discovers, the more M-words keep coming. Like magic mirrors, monsters, mistaken identity and a murderer who is the mysterious manservant to the Queen of Hearts.

Mary Ann is mightily moved to unmask his malicious machinations, but can she unearth the evidence, expose the killer and keep a cool head?

Jenn Thorson had always wanted to be a writer, but her C+ in Penmanship was holding her back. She'd written her first mystery novel, Key to the Blue Moon, when she was 11 years old, which her secretary, um, Mom, was kind enough to type up for her. Among the two people she knew, it was a smash hit. She went on to compose other works as a result of her dramatic success, an experience that saw her delve into the Mystery genre, flirt with the Melodramatic Teen style, and improve her knowledge of the Awkward Poetry of Which We Should Never Talk Again school of writing. Despite this, she was accepted to Carnegie Mellon University's Creative and Professional Writing program.

And it was here that she found she had a sense of humour. This was unexpected, given how much attention the funny bone generally receives. Jenn soon graduated from Carnegie Mellon and went to work as a technical writer for a software development business, despite her troublesome eating habits. She progressed from describing where the File menu was to directing the marketing of the company's product line in the years that followed.

She recognized that marketing was a happy mix of making something up and getting paid for it, so she went to work for a local advertising business as a full-time marketing writer and project manager. She also continued to work on her fiction, and The Last Big Play of Rosie Cosnowski, her first published tale, was published in the Timber Creek Review. Jenn Thorson's stories have since been published in the Funny Press, the Lewis Carroll Society of North America's magazine, and Romantic Homes magazine. Gone Goes the Galaxy, The Purloined Number, and Tryfling Issues are among her most recent works.

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ISBN 13	9780983804581
ISBN 10	0983804583
Title	The Curious Case of Mary Ann
Author	Jenn Thorson
Series	The Curious Case Of Mary Ann
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Waterhouse Press
Year published	2017-06-16
Number of pages	232
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.