Oh well - I still have a lot of books to choose from.

I had ordered some used copies at ABE.com, but they didn't all ship. (I just Googled it on the off-chance it had been made into a TV show or movie and I just missed it, but no luck.) I think I have a couple more Doris Miles Disney books in my waiting-to-be-read pile. Back in the day, I could have seen Peter Falk (aka Columbo), James Garner (aka Rockford) or even Walter Matthau as the protagonist of this book. On the whole, Doris Miles Disney books always seem to be worth the read. Not a shocker like some of her books, but not your average mystery either.

The characters are interesting and the plot has some unexpected twists. I'm not going to give away any spoilers, but the biggest twist to this mystery is.well, you'll have to read it to find out. Waiting for Willa / by Dorothy Eden - A walk to the hills of the dreamtime / by James Vance Marshall - T.R. The title is kind of misleading - Miss Bessie Lewis does feature prominently but she's not the protagonist. Today I felt like reading something old, so I dug out Doris Miles Disney's THE DAY MISS BESSIE LEWIS DISAPPEARED. I'm going back and forth between new releases and oldies. I'm sure I haven't read all those, so the hunt is on! Looking up her bio, I learned that Doris Miles Disney wrote 47 novels. It was going on my keeper shelf anyway, but now I have two reasons for keeping it! It's a William Morris print, only ours was in brown tones while the cover has some blue in the pattern. In fact, it was exactly the same wallpaper we had in our living room when we lived in England some years back. I don't pay a lot of attention to book covers while I am reading a books, so it wasn't until I finished it that I noticed the background of the cover was familiar. One interesting note (interesting to me, in any case) was in the cover of the paperback version I read. Even though I had been forewarned by their recommendations that something special was coming, my initial guess was way off the mark. I'll add my thumbs up to Brian and Kate's recommendation of WHO RIDES A TIGER? It really kept me guessing.

Waiting for willa by dorothy eden