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June 2005
Compiled by Katherine Stecher, of Rochester (MN) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.

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Andrews, Donna. Murder with peacocks (wedding celebration)

Andrews, Donna. Revenge of the wrought-iron flamingos (craft festival)

Barnard, Robert. Fete fatale (english village fair)

Binchy, Maeve. Silver wedding (25th wedding anniversary)

Brown, Sandra. Riley in the morning (dinner party)

Butler, Tajuana. The Night before Thirty

Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Christie, Agatha. And Then There were None/Ten little Indians (house party mystery)

Crawford, Isis. A Catered Murder

Davidson, Diane Mott.

D'Amato, Barbara. Hard Road (festival)

DeBartolo, Tiffanie. God-Shaped Hole

DiCamillo, Kate. Because of Winn-Dixie (birthday party)

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol

Eliot, T.S. The Cocktail Party

Farmer, Jerrilyn. Flaming Luau of Death

Goudge, Eileen. One Last Dance (anniversary)

Jance, J. A. Exit Wounds (4th of July celebration)

Lackey, Mercedes. Bedlam's Bard series particularly Spirits White as Lightening ( Elvish naming party)

March, Joseph Moncure. The Wild Party: the lost classic (1926 rowdy novella-length poem, recently reissued, and recently made into a theatrical musical)

Martin, George R. R. Dying of the Light (sf novel - probably out of print - about the last days of a decade-long festival on a doomed and now largely abandoned colonized planet)

McCrumb, Sharyn. Highland Laddie Gone(Highland Games festival)

Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto(birthday party)

Peters, Ellis. St. Peter's Fair (medieval English fair)

Pilcher, Rosamunde. September (woman's "coming-out" party)

Preston, Douglas J. Relic

Prill, David. Serial Killer Days (black humor about a small town in Minnesota that makes commercial and social capital out of the annual visit of a serial killer

Rand, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged

Read, Miss. Fairacre Festival

Sayers, Dorothy. Gaudy Night

Shields, Carol. Larry's Party

Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring (eleventy-first birthday party)

Tyler, Anne. Back When We Were Grownups

Wolzien, Valerie. All Hallows' Eve

Wolzien, Valerie. An Anniversary to Die For

Wolzien, Valerie. Deck the Halls with Murder

Wolzien, Valerie. The Fortieth Birthday Body

Wolzien, Valerie. Weddings are Murder

Wolzien, Valerie. Murder at the PTA Luncheon

Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway

FILMS

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (masquerade)

The Anniversary Party

Clue (dinner party)

A Little Night Music (houseparty)

Love! Valour! Compassion! (houseparty)

Much Ado about Nothing (masquerade)

National Lampoon's Animal House (frat parties)

The Party (Peter Sellers stars as an East Indian office clerk accidentally invited to a posh party at his boss's house, which he bumblingly proceeds to wreck--think elephants and indoor living-room pools.

Playing by Heart (anniversary party)

Steel Magnolias (wedding)

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Last updated: 6/30/2005