Everything you need to understand or teach Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes.
Hotel Paradise, following up on Grimes's earlier The End of the Pier (1992), represents the author's second foray into serious, "literary" fiction, an intentional, self-conscious movement away from the tried-and-true conventions of the traditional mystery novel. Nonetheless, a possible murder does lie at the core of the plot and prompts the investigations of the book's first-person narrator, twelve-year-old Emma Graham (who remains unnamed until near the novel's end). Plucky and precocious Emma, whose harried, distant mother presides over a down-at-the-heels restaurant and hotel in the small town of LaPorte, learns of the mysterious drowning death, some forty years before, of young Mary-Evelyn Devereau.
Mary-Evelyn had lived with three elderly aunts and had apparently dressed herself in her fanciest party frock late one night and cast off in a rowboat for a puzzling and ultimately fatal voyage on nearby Spirit Lake. During the course of Emma's investigation, a second, apparently...
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