Granny Grace
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The Granny Grace Mysteries, from author Patricia C. Hughes, is a series of comical mystery
short stories
published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
in the late 1990s. They followed the ghostly capers of Dallas McGee, a young corporate secretary from Houston, who becomes haunted by her Great-Granny Grace—a ghost who appears to her as a young and flamboyant 1920s flapper. Grace died just as Dallas' sister Savannah was supposed to marry into the powerful St. James family—and she refuses to "cross over" until Dallas investigates a long series of St. James murders dating back to the 1920s.
Mystery fiction
Mystery fiction is a loosely-defined term.1.It is often used as a synonym for detective fiction or crime fiction— in other words a novel or short story in which a detective investigates and solves a crime mystery. Sometimes mystery books are nonfiction...
short stories
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
published in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine is a monthly digest size fiction magazine specializing in crime and detective fiction. AHMM is named for Alfred Hitchcock, the famed director of suspense films and television.-History:...
in the late 1990s. They followed the ghostly capers of Dallas McGee, a young corporate secretary from Houston, who becomes haunted by her Great-Granny Grace—a ghost who appears to her as a young and flamboyant 1920s flapper. Grace died just as Dallas' sister Savannah was supposed to marry into the powerful St. James family—and she refuses to "cross over" until Dallas investigates a long series of St. James murders dating back to the 1920s.