I'm looking for a short story probable name NO MOTIVE about a suicide
of a woman and a detective is ask to find out why carrot top  is
prominent in the solving of the apparent mystery I believe it is by a
french author my first guesses were de maupassnat or du maurier

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Request for Question Clarification by leep-ga on 03 Mar 2003 16:21 PST

Are you looking for the complete text on a web site or are you looking
for a source of the book that contains the story?

Greetings lockjaw1399!

I believe the work you are looking for is a short story by Daphne du
Maurier entitled "No Motive."

Here's a posting on the dumaurier.org guestbook:

"I would like some help remembering the name of one of her short
stories. The key word is "carrot top". A story of woman in a
sanatarian because of the loss of her baby. Seems like she is in good
health until a man shows up at the end of the story with "red hair"
and she goes off the deep end! Vague, I know, but please help if you
know the title. Must find for my book club!"

And here's the response someone wrote:
"Hi Juliann, I believe the short story you are thinking off is titled
"No Motive". It's the last one in 'Kiss Me Again, Stranger'."

above quotes from: 
http://www.dumaurier.org/guestbook/guestbook.html

Additionally, the story appears in a story collection entitled "Ten
Great Mysteries" (edited by Howard Haycraft and John Beecroft and
published by Doubleday, 1959).  You'll find "No Motive" listed on this
page:
http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/archives/199812/0127.html

Somewhat related, here's "an homage" to No Motive: "'Truth Is a
4-Letter Word' - Based on the short story “No Motive” by Daphne Du
Maurier - Written for the stage by Yogesh J. Raut":
http://www.angelfire.com/movies/southernmace/nomotive.html

Used copies of "Kiss Me Again, Stranger" can be obtained from many
sources.  Below are links detail pages on Amazon.com U.S. and U.K.:
"Kiss Me Again, Stranger":
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440145767
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0440145767

Additionally, you may want to use a site such as BookFinder.com to
locate copies.  I did a quick search of bookfinder and was able to
also locate copies of the "Ten Great Mysteries" book mentioned above.
http://www.bookfinder.com/

I hope this information is helpful.  If you would like for me to
clarify any part of my answer or further research your question,
please let me know before issuing a rating.  Thanks!

leep-ga



some search strategy used:
"no motive"  maurier

many thanks this qwest has been bugging me for a year i knew it was
out there just couldn't find it i read this story 10 years ago and
fell in love with dahpne thanks again
larry locklear