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Four Mini Mysteries is the only collection of the Liffey Rivers Irish Dancer Mysteries in short story form. These Liffey Rivers short mysteries were originally published as serialized, monthly installments in Irish Dancing and Culture Magazine when it was published in England. In "The Mystery of the Missing Novice," Liffey discovers that there are two unrelated young dancers at an Irish dance competition (feis) who look like identical twins. When one of them goes missing, Liffey's intuition and attention to detail bring about the safe return of the missing novice. In "The Case of the Clumsy Clowns," Liffey suspects that a group of klutzy clowns performing at a local church, billing themselves as 'The Joyful Jesters, ' might be up to something more than entertaining their audience. "The Mystery of the Temporary Trophy," finds Liffey at a feis in New York with her flaky Aunt Jean who is suffering from Post Traumatic Bling Syndrome. Liffey observes that one of the perpetual trophies to be awarded at this feis looks suspiciously like the ancient Derrynaflan Chalice she has seen before in a Dublin museum. In "The Werewolves of Ossory," Liffey rescues a dancer from Ireland who has traveled alone to the Seattle Halloween Feis burdened with a centuries old family curse.

13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers is on safari in South Africa with her eccentric Aunt Jean, en route to an Irish dancing competition in Johannesburg. After dodging a charging rhino, fending off a pride of lions and re-routing an enraged mother elephant, Liffey's problems have just begun. When Liffey is confronted by a deadly Black Mamba snake in the tall savanna grasses, she must rely on instinct and her Irish dance training to survive. At the Johannesburg Feis, Liffey's troubles continue and she again finds herself, this time with a little boy in a wheelchair, in the shadow of the serpent.

An exhausted Liffey Rivers is miles above the earth, en route to Amsterdam from South Africa. She is grateful to be alive after several almost deadly encounters with black mamba snakes and is very relieved that her harrowing experiences earlier that day at the Johannesburg Feis are finally over. However, she soon notices that there is a man on the plane walking slowly down the aisle, wearing the same exotic Italian leather shoes worn by a delivery man during her lunch break earlier that day. When Liffey eagerly opened the gift basket, a lethal black mamba snake reared up hissing, ready to attack. Although she had not been able to see the delivery man's face because of his over-sized sunglasses, she had noticed the unusual shoes he was wearing. Liffey is certain these designer shoes are not a coincidence and that the same would-be delivery assassin is now on this plane to finish what the snake in the basket had failed do. Paralyzed with fear, she tries unsuccessfully to rouse the sleeping detective her father had hired to protect her on her way back to the U.S. but soon realizes that the shoe man has struck again and that the detective is apparently drugged and unconscious! Sick with fear, realizing that she is trapped miles above the earth, she must once again employ her Irish dance training to save her life and the life of her unconscious bodyguard. Months later, she takes an idyllic Alaskan cruise with her family and best friend from Ireland, Sinead McGowan. Their cruise itinerary includes, in addition to exciting ship to shore excursions, her first boyfriend and an Irish dance competition in Anchorage, Alaska. Liffey Rivers sets sail, never expecting that she is heading to a rendezvous with her worst enemy on the desolate shores of the Arctic Ocean.

The ancient Irish believed that people were affected by the cycles of the moon and that the moon had real power over the deeds of men. After dancing at an Irish dancing competition (feis) in Beltra, County Sligo, Ireland, 13-year-old Irish dancer Liffey Rivers experiences an extraordinary phenomenon directly above Queen Maeve's cairn on the summit of Knocknarea (the Mountain of the Moon). Soon after this paranormal event, Liffey finds herself seeking answers to life and death questions as she desperately searches on the mountain for a mysterious woman who wears a diamond 'M.'