Dolores Hitchens
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"Mystery begets mystery for private eye Jim Sader in this hardboiled classic by one of America's pioneering women crime writers. What starts as a missing persons case grows more puzzling with the discovery of another strangely coincidental disappearance. Sader finds himself deep in a multilayered intrigue revolving around oil and real estate and the sleazy underpinnings of Long Beach, California, in the 1950s. Taut, suspenseful, and gritty: many consider...
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"A strange encounter with a little girl named Claudia and a dead toad sparks elderly detective fiction fan Rachel Murdock's obsessive curiosity, and she winds up renting the house next door just to see how things play out. But soon after she and her cat Samantha move in, Rachel realizes they've landed right in the middle of a deadly love triangle that's created animosity among the three families who now surround her. When Rachel finds Claudia's great-grandmother...
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Library of America volume 269
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[2015]
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English
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These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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Pub. Date
[2003]
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Français
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Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.