Marion Mainwaring

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Marion Mainwaring (1922- ) is an American writer.

Mainwaring is best known as the author who completed Edith Wharton's novel The Buccaneers, published in 1993. A novelist in her own right, she wrote the brilliantly funny Murder in Pastiche: or Nine Detectives All at Sea (1954), parodying nine famous fictional detectives, and Murder at Midyears (1953). She translated Youth and Age: Three Novellas by Ivan Turgenev and edited The Portrait Game, records of a parlor game played by Turgenev and his friends. Her most recent work is Mysteries of Paris: The Quest for Morton Fullerton (2001).

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• Works by or about Marion Mainwaring in libraries (WorldCat catalog)