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Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso freely admits that she spent her youth idolizing girl detective Nancy Drew, a fantasy that undoubtedly influenced her grown-up job writing biographies of dead mystery writers. But as Cece will discover driving down the highway in her Jackie O. sunglasses and a borrowed baby-blue Cadillac, some fantasies die harder than others.Researching the life of Carolyn Keene, the pseudonymous author of the Nancy Drew mysteries, Cece meets a flamboyant collector of Blue Nancys, the original books with blue covers. When he finds out that she is taking a road trip to Palm Springs to snoop around at the annual Nancy Drew fan convention, he offers her the use of his swanky vacation house. But the last thing Cece expects to find lying around the swimming pool is one very dead body.In a race against time that takes her from a secret enclave of restored Victorians near downtown L.A. to the driest stretches of California desert, Cece will have to channel her former idol and then some to unmask a sly killer -- before he comes after her. Of course, it helps to have a knockout collection of vintage clothing, though Cece prefers Azzedine Alaïa semigloss knits and Halston silver sequined berets to Nancy's prim suits and gloves.Filled with wit, energy, and clever twists, not to mention one smart, hip heroine,Not a Girl Detective is pure entertainment.
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Thomas Lynley and his sidekicks, Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata, investigate the murder of Eugenie Davies. Davies is the mother of Gideon, a famous violin virtuoso who is also the prime suspect.
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Antique print dealer Maggie Summers visits her old college friend, Amy Douglas, who has recently bought a 17th-century house on the Maine coast with her husband. Maggie arrives to find Amy consumed with the idea of having a baby, and convinced that the house is haunted. In the meantime, Amy's husband Drew seems entirely too interested in a teenage girl named Crystal, whose murdered, pregnant corpse turns up some time later. It's up to Maggie to investigate the history of the Douglas family and of the house and find the killer.
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Sleuthing mom Juliet Applebaum tries to figure out who murdered her personal trainer.
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Donald E. Westlake's ever-popular thief John Dortmunder and some pals have a new scheme in hand. They'll work as servants to a corrupt businessman, Monroe Hall, so that they can pull an inside job and steal his antique auto collection. However, their larcenous plans are disrupted by two competing gangs of kidnappers who have also set their sights on Hall.
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