Blood on the Street [Mass Market Paperback]

Annette Myers (Author), Annette Meyers (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 1993

Executive search specialists Xenia Smith and Leslie Wetzon must solve a crime when the ruthless, fast-track broker they have just placed in a cushy new position is found shot to death. Reprint. AB.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In a fourth adventure for this pair of Wall Street headhunters (after The Deadliest Option ), gorgeous, abrasive, opportunistic Xenia Smith and weepy ex-Broadway dancer Leslie Wetzon become entangled in another murder. After Brian Middleton, a stockbroker for whom they recently found a new job, turns up dead in Central Park, they discover he was having an affair with 16-year-old Tabby Ann, whose mother he once bilked. Her mother asks Smith and Wetzon to find the missing Tabby, whose pig-latin OK as is diary may hold a clue to Brian's murder. When the diary disappears and Tabby's body reappears at the bottom of a pool outside the Vivian Beaumont TheatreTheatre per book , the partners get serious about their investigation. Wall Street jargon, a romance for Wetzon and a 40th birthday for Smith can't disguise the fact that the protagonists look and sound more like cartoon characters than like real working women.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Kirkus Reviews

Headhunter Leslie Wetzon is having an awful week: she and her partner, Xenia Smith, have escalated their bickering; her cop- boyfriend is away; she has to move from her apartment; and a broker she's just placed in a new firm, Brian Middleton, didn't show up for his new job. He couldn't--he's dead. Whodunit? Leslie, between power brunches and lunches, etc., casts a suspicious eye on Brian's wife (the couple bitterly contested custody of their client list); the alcoholic Penny Ann, a client whom Brian swindled; her missing daughter, whom he seduced; and the psychiatrist to them all--the mellow, sublimely fatuous Dr. Jerry--and his sequined wife Barbie. Leslie is tailed, bashed, and beset all around but saves her biggest fears for her reactions to an eligible dinner date, the distinguished Alton, who just happened to arbitrate a case involving Brian. Not to worry: the killer's false r‚sum‚ eventually comes to light, and then it's back to business as usual for Leslie. More trendiness and upscale name-dropping. Not to mention dumb plotting. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Crimeline (April 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553297317
• ISBN-13: 978-0553297317
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 3.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,290,967 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

ANNETTE MEYERS


Annette Meyers was born in Manhattan, grew up on a chicken farm in Toms River, NJ, graduated from Douglass College, Rutgers University, and came running back to NYC as fast as she could. She is the author of 8 Smith and Wetzon Wall Street and Broadway mysteries, using her experience as a Wall Street headhunter and arbitrator, as well as her Broadway experience as Harold Prince's assistant. The most recent novel is Hedging. Her other works: 2 Olivia Brown 1920s Greenwich Village mysteries, Free Love and Murder Me Now; and a stand-alone psychological suspense novel: Repentances. Her noir short stories have appeared in many anthologies. One of these stories- "You Don't Know Me" - was included in James Ellroy's edited Best American Mystery Stories, 2002.
As Maan Meyers, she and her husband Martin write The Dutchman series. There are now 7 history mysteries in the series, and numerous short stories that feature characters from the novels. The setting is New York in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. The 7th novel - The Organ Grinder - set in 1899, was published in October, 2008. THE DUTCHMAN, the first book in the series, is now available on Kindle
Annette was the 10th president of Sister in Crime. Website:www.meyersmysteries.com