Marti MacAlister, a police detective and African-American widowed mother of two, gets thrown into the biggest case of her career when a maniac murderer targets a group of homeless children to be his next victims. In a desperate race against time, Marti must also battle her white partner's reservations. Martin's.
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An auspicious debut, this gritty procedural introduces Marti MacAlister, a black woman detective in Lincoln Prairie, Ill., near Chicago. The Cramer Hotel, a local flophouse, becomes the scene of a crime when Lauretta Dorsey, a schizophrenic who had fled her wealthy family years before, is found murdered in her room. Marti, who has moved from Chicago after her husband's recent death, investigates the victim's background and discovers several secrets in her past. Lauretta had received a psychiatric discharge from the Navy during the Vietnam war; her fiance had mysteriously died. Evidence that some abandoned children who witnessed the crime are being stalked by the killer plus two more deaths in the hotel prod Marti to step up the search for the children. Bland handles the evolving relationship between Marti and a white male partner unsure of women's place in the police world with sensitivity and humor, while evoking with chilling reality the plight of the endangered children and the mentally ill.
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Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Detective Marti McAlister, female, black, and formerly with the Chicago police, now works in much smaller Lincoln Prairie, which has similar crime problems. Marti and cohorts investigate the murder of an inoffensive but neurotic woman in a seedy residential hotel. When the killer begins eliminating possible witnesses, Marti desperately tries to locate several scavenging children before the murderer does. First novelist Bland competently incorporates the minutiae of police procedure with Marti's additional burdens of widowed parenthood, but in a detached and often flat manner that will leave most readers untouched.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This book was good reading. Bland presented a mystery with an edge of suspense. The reading is easy and fast. Once you start, you will not put it down until you finish.
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This is the first book that I have read by Taylor-Bland. I happened to run across it at the library. It was great I finished it in less than two days. It kept my interest from the very first page.I am looking forward to reading all of her books.
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Talylor-Bland has done it again. This is the 3rd book in her series that I have read. She is magnificent mystery writer. She will keep you guessing as to "who done it", but in the end you are usually surprised. Keep up the good work Eleanor. I am reading "Done Wrong" now. I am sure it will be as good as the others.
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When Detective Marti MacAlister arrived at the Cramer Hotel a number of elderly residents had sorted themselves into two small groups, one male, one female. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
abandoned industrial buildings, singing woman Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Prairie, Julie King, Wayne Baxter, John Clark, Lauretta Dorsey, Adeline Greyson, Miss Jennings, Lenny Doobee, Marlena Jennings, Cramer Hotel, Lupe Torres, Bernard Greyson, Burger King, Denise Stevens, Juliette Kingsland, Miss Cindy, Quinella Jones, James Arthur, Thank God, Christmas Eve, Frannie Greyson, Herb Mansfield, Nelson Weeks, Sherman Avenue, Charles Smith New!
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When Detective Marti MacAlister arrived at the Cramer Hotel a number of elderly residents had sorted themselves into two small groups, one male, one female. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
abandoned industrial buildings, singing woman Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lincoln Prairie, Julie King, Wayne Baxter, John Clark, Lauretta Dorsey, Adeline Greyson, Miss Jennings, Lenny Doobee, Marlena Jennings, Cramer Hotel, Lupe Torres, Bernard Greyson, Burger King, Denise Stevens, Juliette Kingsland, Miss Cindy, Quinella Jones, James Arthur, Thank God, Christmas Eve, Frannie Greyson, Herb Mansfield, Nelson Weeks, Sherman Avenue, Charles Smith New!
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- Scream in Silence by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Tell No Tales (Marti Macalister Mysteries) by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter
- See No Evil (Marti Macalister Mysteries) by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter
- Keep Still by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter
- Done Wrong by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter
- Done Wrong by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition by Priscilla L. Walton on page 110, and Back Matter
- Keep Still (Marti Macalister Mysteries) by Eleanor Taylor Bland in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Multicultural Detective Fiction: Murder from the "Other" Side (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Adrienne J. Gosselin on page 272, and page 278
- Literary Chicago: A Book Lover's Tour of the Windy City (Illinois) by Greg Holden on page 80, and page 260
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