The Rich Die Young (Five Star First Edition Mystery) [Large Print] [Library Binding]

Carolyn G. Hart (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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As increasing media attention is paid to real-world academia's less desirable practices, best-seller Hart further bloodies the fictitious ivy. In this tightly written page-turner, set in the groves of a private school campus, former reporter turned teacher Ann Farrell finds a student apparently dead from a fall, but police find a knife wound that spells homicide. Was this wealthy, appealing boy the perpetrator of ugly poison-pen letters sent to faculty, including Ann? Was his murder somehow connected to the recent boating accident responsible for his best friend's death? Had his quest for sensation and experience led him down a path so risky he had to pay with his life? Ann's curiosity makes her undertake her own unofficial investigation, throwing her into repeated contact with the police lieutenant in charge of the case, the attractive, smart, and charming Alonzo Fox, who doesn't seem to mind her involvement in the least. Whitney Scott
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Product Details

• Library Binding: 198 pages
• Publisher: Five Star (ME) (November 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786228989
• ISBN-13: 978-0786228980
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,167,605 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Carolyn Hart writes the Death on Demand series set in a mystery bookstore on a South Carolina sea island and the Bailey Ruth Raeburn series featuring a lively redheaded ghost. Coming in 2012 from Berkley Prime Crime will be DEATH COMES SILENTLY, 22nd in the Death on Demand series, and WHAT THE CAT SAW, fist in the series featuring Nela Farley who has an uncanny sense of cats' thoughts.

She is also the author of several WWII novels, including ESCAPE FROM PARIS which is now available for the first time in its complete uncut version. Escape from Paris is the story of two sisters who defy the Gestapo to help British fliers avoid capture.

In Ghost at Work, Bailey Ruth returns to earth to help someone in trouble. She moves a body, investigates a murder, saves a marriage, prevents a suicide, and--in a fiery finale--rescues a child who knows too much. In Merry, Merry Ghost, Bailey Ruth protects a little boy from danger. In Ghost in Trouble, Bailey Ruth tries to corral a wilful woman determined to play hunt-the-killer. Coming in 2013 is HIJACKED GHOST which puts Bailey Ruth at risk of ever returning to Heaven.

Letter from Home, a WWII novel set on the home front, received the Agatha Award for Best Mystery of 2003. It was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. Thirteen-year-old Gretchen Gilman is working for the small-town newspaper during the hot summer of 1944. Murder occurs on the street where she lives, forever changing her life and the lives of those involved.

Hart was one of 10 mystery authors featured at the National Book Festival on the Mall in Washington, DC, in 2003 for Letter from Home and again in 2007 for Set Sail for Murder, 7th in the Henrie O series. In Set Sail for Murder (new in paperback March 2008), Henrie O joins a troubled family on a Baltic cruise and death is an unwelcome passenger.

Hart has been nominated 9 times for the Agatha Award for Best Novel and has won 3 times. In 2007 she received the Lifetime Achievement Award at Malice Domestic. She will be the International Guest of Honor at Bloody Words in Toronto on June 6-8, 2008.

Hart is a native of Oklahoma City, a journalism graduate of the University of Oklahoma, and a former president of Sisters in Crime. She is also a member of Authors Guild, Mystery Writers of America, the International Association of Crime Writers, and American Crime Writers League.