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Sparkle Hayter

The Chelsea Girl Murders (Robin Hudson Mysteries #5) Mass Market Paperback – November 1, 2001

by Sparkle Hayter (Author)

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Book 5 of 5: The Robin Hudson Mysteries

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When a fire guts her apartment building, TV newswoman Robin Hudson flees to the Chelsea Hotel with her cat Louise Bryant, and there she soon finds herself investigating the suspicious suicide of one of her neighbors. Reprint.

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240 pages
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English
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Penguin Books
Publication date

November 1, 2001
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4.38 x 0.67 x 6.84 inches
ISBN-10

0142000108
ISBN-13

978-0142000106
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Sparkle Hayter has been a producer at CNN and WABC, a freelance reporter, and a stand-up comic. What's a Girl Gotta Do? received the Crime Writers of Canada Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Mystery Novel.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Books; Reprint edition (November 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 240 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0142000108
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0142000106
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.38 x 0.67 x 6.84 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #4,982,114 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Dora L. Davison

Love hurts

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2016

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Robin is homeless after her apartment burns. She moves into her friend, Tomaya's apartment at the Chelsea Hotel. Unfortunately, for Robin, Tomaya is rather free with her keys and Robin is awakened in the middle of the night by a bratty adolescent girl who claims that Tomaya said that she could stay there. The girl, Nadia, speaks with a Slavik accent but won't tell Robin where she is from--just that she is waiting to meet her boyfriend so that they can marry and that her family is not pleased because they've already picked out someone for her to marry. The next day while Robin is at work, Nadia disappears. In the meantime, the boy that Robin thinks is the boyfriend shows up and demands to be taken to Nadia. There is a murder of an art dealer named Wozniak and at first Robin is a suspect because when she goes to the apartment door to see what the noise was, the body falls on top of her.

There are a lot of humorous moments in the book. Many of them involving Mrs. Ramirez, Robin's former neighbor whose lighted picture of Jesus had a short and burnt down the apartment complex, her chihuahua who the nuns dressed in a tiny habit, and Maggie Mason who pulled off one of the best revenge strategies I've ever heard of.

I got really tired of Rocky and Nadia and the toupee guys however there would not have been a story without them.

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Nancy Moody

Great Mystery!

Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2021

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This is a great mystery--entertaining, hilariously funny, and interesting. It was hard to put down. All the twists and turns kept one wondering who murdered the art dealer and what would happen next to Robin Hudson. Highly recommend.

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D. P. Birkett

Too New York

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2001

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It's a very funny, but overly fantastic,mystery set in Manhattan in the Chelsea Hotel (with a lot of Chelsea Hotel history thrown in). The adventures are too wild to be believable. I buy all Sparkle Hayter's and all Janet Evanovich's, but I have to admit that Evanovich is better. Hayter tries too hard to make every character eccentric, zany or wacky in every way but maybe that's the way Manhattan is. The Trenton characters are more grounded in reality. I find that Robin Hudson comes more vividly to life whenever her background in Minnesota intrudes (which it doesn't in this book).
Incidentally I noticed a reference to checking mail for anthrax (page 20 of the paperback) and this has a 2000 original publication date.

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teresa edgerton-scott

The Chelsea Girl Murders

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2013

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I hated to see the Robin Hudson series end, although I understand that Hayter is a free spirit and needed to move on to other challenges. The setting of the Chelsea Hotel makes this book, with the characters a close second. Plot is always way down the list for a Hayter mystery, but they are still great fun to read and make you laugh out loud. I'll probably read this book again just to enjoy life behind the scenes of the Chelsea and visit with Robin Hudson one more time.

Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015

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I have been waiting for these books to become available for Kindle for a long time. 10 years ago I found two of these books in our local library and had to search for the others online. Out of print and not available, I was able to buy them used from three different websites. Sparkle is an enjoyable read.

Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2015

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I love pretty much everything that Sparkle Hayter has written -- including this one. More! More!

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Bonita R. Delbert

Review of. Chelsea girl. Murde

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2016

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I had trouble reading this book I think it was because of the strange names

Talking about people from Uzbekistan with
Names like Rocky it kind of through me when I came on the strange name

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Steven R. Harbin

Humor, danger, and an angst ridden love life among the arts.

Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2002

Sparkle Hayter's Robin Hudson is rapidly becoming one of my favorite characters in the sub genre that is hard boiled humor romance mystery (for lack of a better term). If you enjoy Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series then you'll enjoy this one. Hudson works for a large liberal (is there any other kind?) news network, and the double dealings and office politics from her employment situation alone make the series worthwhile. Author Hayter used to work for several such organizations, and her descriptions of life at the all news station rings true. Her love life is about as messed up as Stephanie Plum's or Casey Jones (another series I recommend), and while some of her mystery situations seem over the top, there's still enough threat of real danger and believable bad guys (and gals) to keep up the suspense.
In this novel, which is the 5th in the series, Robin's apartment is burned down by one of her older neighbor's electric Ascension of Jesus display when it develops a short circuit. Taking her few rescued belongings and her grandfather's old rifle (purely for sentimental value) she moves into the famous Chelsea hotel, home to the artists and bohemian eccentrics in New York.
Before she can settle into her new (borrowed from a friend) digs and start her vacation she encounters dead philandering artists, mute Zen bodybuilders, former girlfriends of her own former boyfriends, and young lovers on the lam. As usual her only choice is to jump in where others fear to tread and try to solve the mysteries involved. Definitely recommended.

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Annett214

nice and entertaining

Reviewed in Germany on November 1, 2003

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This is the first book of Sparkle Hayter I've read. It's quite interesting to read with a lot of New York flair.
But part of it is illogical and / or seems constructed.
Most of all: Robin Hudson's motives for her actions are not clear.
She tries to solve a murder and to rescue a young couple of eloped Europeans, neither of which she needs to do.
Her only "excuse" for doing so is that she accidentally meets the victim of the murder and the young couple.
Out of the gathered information she draws conclusions that are not convincing to me.
Maybe the motives for Robin's sleuthing can be found in the earlier novels of Hayter.
On the plus side there are a lot of more or less eccentric and / or neurotic characters which lead to a lot of equally eccentric events. (An old lady that tries to teach nuns in a convent how to be really pious; a bodybuilder who always trains his muscels in his open door but doesn't speak to the world because he practices Zen; underground art-groups who put fake dog-poo on the New York streets etc.)
Still, the book is noch really funny, just amusing.

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