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Ballantine
June 2006
Featuring: Faye Quick
288 pages
ISBN: 0345478126
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Mystery Historical | Mystery Amateur Sleuth | Mystery Woman Sleuth
I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them
both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention
in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for
awhile. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they
figured I was the best (which I might be). Not bad for a
26-year-old gal from Newark, New Jersey. It’s the middle of World War II, but not all the killing
is happening overseas. In a sweltering New York City
summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick – kicked
upstairs when her boss ships out – takes on a new case that
would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets. It all starts with a beautiful woman. Heartbroken Claire
Turner turns on the waterworks in Faye’s office, begging
for help in finding her beau, Private Charlie Ladd, gone
missing while on leave from Uncle Sam’s army. But when
Faye busts into Charlie’s hotel room, she doesn’t find
anyone – anyone alive, that is. But where’s Charlie? Because the corpse in the hotel room
might not be him. And that leads Faye to wonder if the
unfortunate stiff was Charlie’s target practice. In a case with more twists, starts, and stops than the
Third Avenue El, Faye learns that some shocking truths are
hidden behind the fog of war – a personal war being fought
on the home front.
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