Dead Heat [Mass Market Paperback]

Linda Barnes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 1985

"A smart, lively read." The Detroit News
A Michael Spraggue Mystery. It's murder at the Boston Marathon! Senator Donagher has been receiving death threats. But it's election year, and the Senator wants to rustle up votes by running in the Boston Marathon. As a favor to an old friend, Pete, Michael puts aside his acting career to help protect the Senator. But how to protect a man in the middle of the Boston Marathon? Is there more -- or less -- to the Senator than meets the eye? And will Michael become a target himself in the process?

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"A smart, lively read." The Detroit News
A Michael Spraggue Mystery. It's murder at the Boston Marathon! Senator Donagher has been receiving death threats. But it's election year, and the Senator wants to rustle up votes by running in the Boston Marathon. As a favor to an old friend, Pete, Michael puts aside his acting career to help protect the Senator. But how to protect a man in the middle of the Boston Marathon? Is there more -- or less -- to the Senator than meets the eye? And will Michael become a target himself in the process?

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback
• Publisher: Fawcett (September 12, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0449206890
• ISBN-13: 978-0449206898
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 3.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,953,264 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in Detroit; I always say that's where I learned about crime, but I mean no disrespect to a great city. It's also where I learned to love Motown music and do the Stroll. Came to Boston to go to college, and like so many, stayed, awed by the Atlantic Ocean and accessible public transportation. I still love walking Boston's cobbled streets, riding the T, breathing the history.
I started writing while teaching high school theater. Required by my principal to enter a one-act play festival sponsored by the Boston Globe, I cast the play before I actually found it. I had such great students that year, and 12 of them certainly deserved to be in the festival cast. When I couldn't find a one-act with 12 roles (duh), I had to write one myself. The festival was a competition, and darned if we didn't keep on winning, right up to the state finals, where a man came up to me and asked whether he might publish that play. I said yes, wrote more plays, and then segued into crime fiction.
My first Carlotta Carlyle short story was nominated for just about every mystery award going, and the first Carlyle novel, A TROUBLE OF FOOLS, was nominated for an Edgar and a Shamus, and won the American Mystery Award. I've got a new book, the eleventh in the Carlyle series, coming out in May. It's called HEART OF THE WORLD. Check my website for upcoming tour details. For the rest, I'm married, mother of a teenage son, and currently proud to be president of Private Eye Writers of America.