LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF MURDER
by Martin, Nancy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good to Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Canandaigua, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Obsidian/Penguin Group, 2013. Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/Near Fine. The ninth book in Martin's humorous, cozy mystery series featuring the Blackbird sisters, renegade members of Philadelphia high society. This time it's Nora, assigned by her editor to write an exclusive on the murder of billionaire fashion designer, Swain Starr, who recently retired to develop a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, supermodel, Zephyr. Add the rest of the Blackbird sisters, and other assorted zany characters and you have what one reviewer described as "A delicious mix of murder, sex and cupcakes on the Philadelphia Main Line." About 6 1/4 x 9 inches, 372 pages bound in pink paper-covered boards with black back strip and gold lettering on spine. Dustjacket's cover art by Hiro Kimura features curvaceous young woman in pink strapless dress and long pink gloves reading a book. Title and author's name in metallic blue on front cover and spine. Back panel has nine blurbs praising the Blackbird Sisters series. A remainder mark on bottom edge of text, and lower spine end bumped, o/w boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, binding tight and square. Dj shows only lightly bumped spine end, no tears, creasing, or scratching. Not ex-library, not price-clipped. One of America's best cozy mystery series.
Synopsis
Someone’s getting crossed off the register. Nora Blackbird may have been to the manor borne, but these days money is so tight, she can’t afford to lose her job as a society columnist. So when her new boss at the Philadelphia Intelligencer —Australian tabloid editor Gus Hardwicke—tells her to work the celebrity gossip beat or start checking the want ads, the choice is easy. Now Nora’s writing a profile on billionaire fashion designer Swain Starr, who recently retired to build a high-tech organic farm with his new wife, Zephyr, a former supermodel. But before Nora can get the story, the mogul is murdered. And now Gus wants her to snap up an exclusive on who killed Starr before the cops do. But solving a celebrity murder isn’t easy with a home life as colorful as Nora’s. Her sort-of-husband, Mick, a former mobster, is associating once again with unsavory characters. Her sister Libby is on a mission to get her diabolical twins on stage or screen with the help of an unscrupulous former child star. And the youngest Blackbird sister, Emma, just got kicked out of the house by Mick—who refuses to explain why. If anything can bring the blue-blooded Blackbird sisters together, it’s a murder investigation involving high-society events, glamorous people, and the disappearance of a genetically perfect pig that may or may not be basking in the sun at Blackbird Farm. They’ll all have to pull together this time, because if Nora can’t bring home the bacon, she might have to exchange her bucolic estate for a cramped walk-up.
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- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005849
- Title
- LITTLE BLACK BOOK OF MURDER
- Author
- Martin, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Obsidian/Penguin Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2013
- Keywords
- MYSTERY, COZY HUMOROUS HUMOR, PHILADELPHIA, BLACKBIRD SISTERS, AMATEUR SLEUTH, COMEDY,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Amateur Sleuth; Humor; Cozy Mystery;
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H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
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About H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller, has been serving customers on the internet since 2003. We specialize in modern American and English fiction and in mystery and detective thrillers, as well as art and art history. We also have a growing selection of mid-to-late 19th century history and literature. Nearly all our modern and contemporary books are first editions or otherwise collectable.
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