K. K. Beck
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Series
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
Alice Jordan's dentist husband has just run off with his hygienist and she is desperate for a job. Because Alice has done some volunteer work for the symphony, she manages to talk herself into a job as a commissioned ad rep for a Seattle classical music station. The station was kept alive by its wealthy owner for many years, but her heirs are fighting about the future of the station.
KLEG is so mismanaged that Alice's predecessor Joe Costello...
KLEG is so mismanaged that Alice's predecessor Joe Costello...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
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Description
Nadia Wentworth is a Hollywood star. A big star. And she's so dreadfully bored on location in the South Pacific, she begins reading the first thing her assistant can dig up: a piece of gloriously bad pulp fiction by 1920s author Valerian Ricardo. Nadia soon falls under the spell of the bewitching Kali-Ra, the Queen of Doom, and knows she must portray the infamous character on the big screen.
Ecstatic, she hires a famous British screenwriter to...
Ecstatic, she hires a famous British screenwriter to...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
In 1920 Americans were captivated by the childhood diary of Opal Whiteley, an enigmatic young woman from a small town in the Northwest. The diary, which chronicled adventures in the forests of Oregon at the age of seven, was hailed as a revelatory portrait of a child's relationship to God and the natural world. It became an overnight publishing sensation and Opal, then twenty-two, became a celebrity. Yet the diary-and Opal-was soon dismissed as a...
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Language
English
Description
Following the success of Malice Domestic 1- recipient of the Agatha Award for Best Short Story and called "outstanding" by Publishers Weekly- acclaimed author Mary Higgins Clark serves a feast of original traditional mystery stories in classic Agatha Christie style. Featured writers include Amanda Cross, Frances Fyfield, and K.K. Beck. The stories included here are:
• " Who Shot Mrs. Bryon Boyd?"...