- Mass Market Paperback: 10 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Canada / Mystery; 6th edition (Dec 1 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0380768550
- ISBN-13: 978-0380768554
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.2 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,290,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Peggy O'Neill is a campus cop with a wittily sarcastic voice and a talent for stumbling onto murder victims. The members of the Tower Writers' Collective are famous and semi-famous writers who conflict with one another over both literary and personal matters. When Cameron Harris is found propped up in a closet with a chapter of his latest manuscript--a roman a clef with digs in it about every literary figure in town--on his lap, the collective's members are prime suspects. Lake ( Poisoned Ivy ) uses the setting to make tongue-in-cheek and self-referential jokes about the literary scene. A wispy poetess ends one reading with a poem about the penis being an underdeveloped vagina, and at a dinner party another author suggests that a female campus police officer "would be an interesting subject for a novel, or at least a story." O'Neill's romantic involvement with one of the collective's members is an effective device, since it explains her presence at the scene of the crime and gives her access to the group, but Lake does not explore the relationship and ties it up too neatly when O'Neill's suitor decides to go live in South America. When he promises to write, the familiar phrase takes on a sinister cast.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
"A 'Must Read' For Fans Of Sue Grafton" --" Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine
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Not half bad, Nov 7 2005
By Anna M. Ligtenberg "AnnaLovesBooks" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Gift for Murder (Mass Market Paperback)
ISBN 0380768550 - This isn't the best, or even close to the best, mystery I've ever read - but it IS good, and it's worth a read. It's not hard to keep up with Peggy, or to see what's coming before it arrives, but this is a good book to curl up with when even thinking about doing anything more serious just makes you tired.
Peggy O'Neill, apparently permanently single campus cop, meets a new man, makes new friends and finds her second corpse, all within walking distance of work. There's no shortage of people who might have liked to off Cameron Harris, a writer with little nice to say about anyone - even his "friends". Peggy needs to stop the killer before the death toll rises, and before SHE becomes the next victim!
Good fluff!
- AnnaLovesBooks
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