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Eleanor Taylor Bland`s legion of fans, as well as new readers, will now be able to read the first highly acclaimed novel that launched one of the first-and now one of the best-mystery series written by an African-American writer about an African-American female cop. DEAD TIME will take you on an exhilarating ride through the streets of Chicago with one of the most unforgettable characters in mystery fiction today...Black, widowed, and mother of two, police detective Marti MacAlister has relocated from Chicago to Lincoln Prairie, Illinois, only to be confronted with small-town attitudes and a partner who`s not sure women belong in homicide. But Matthew
Vik
Jessenovik`s old-fashioned thinking is far less compelling a problem than a brutal murder at the Cramer Hotel, home to the elderly, poor, and mentally ill. And when Marti and Vik discover that two abandoned children might have seen the killer leaving the crime scene, the case becomes even more urgent as Marti must step up her efforts and use all of her street smarts to find a killer who is desperate to eliminate any possible witnesses to his crime-even if it`s two innocent homeless kids...
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The grotesquely grinning corpse in the Devonshire shack was a man who died horribly -- with a dish of mushrooms at his side.
His body contained enough death-dealing muscarine to kill 30 people.
Why would an expert on fungi feast on a large quantity of this particularly poisonous species.
A clue to the brilliant murderer, who had baffled the best minds in London, was hidden in a series of letters and documents that no one seemed to care about, except the dead man's son.
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An arty sex film, an actress with broken teeth and a bloody face, and the death of a film theater's proprietor put Superintendent Dalziel and Detective Pascoe in the middle of A Pinch of Snuff.
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