Open Secrets: Open Secrets
Carlton Stowers. Pocket Books, $6.5 (400pp) ISBN 978-0-671-70997-6
An intricate true story of a Dallas socialite who hired an assassin to kill her husband's lover. (Oct.)
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Reviewed on: 10/02/1995
Genre: Nonfiction
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