Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, learns the price of the good research job she obtained after her successful adventures in The Big Payoff. The Chairman of the Board wants her to do a little favor: track down Crystal Blythe, a feckless young woman soon to inherit the lions share of New World stock. Crystal and her twin brother Edward have been living in France, and Anna is dispatched on a working holiday to locate the missing girl.Paris, art, culture, great foodthe trip sounds terrific. Unfortunately for Anna and her artist lover Harry Radford, the young Blythes have gotten themselves into bad company, including gun runners and espionage agents from two countries. Anna learns she cant trust the charming and talented Blythes, and wonders if they can even trust each other.
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Although I never envisioned writing a series of detective stories, Anna Peters, whose first outing was in the Edgar nominee, The Big Payoff, has refused to go away, attracting trouble both in and out of the corporate world.Besides novels, I have published articles and short stories. My day job is teaching English at the University of Connecticut.
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Miss Peters, Major Smith, Crystal Blythe, New World, Monsieur Morret, Bertrand Gilson, Edward Blythe, Mademoiselle Peters, Mademoiselle Chantell, Latin Quarter, Gabriel Celestin, Monsieur Pillot, Sybil Blythe, Jared Morgan, Monsieur Radford, Antoine Fermine, New York, Miss Braun, Tony Fermine, Army Intelligence, Place Kléber Browse Sample Pages:
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- Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition by Priscilla L. Walton on page 20
- The Woman Detective: GENDER AND GENRE by Kathleen Klein in Back Matter
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