Death Before Dying: A Lt. Hastings Mystery
Collin Wilcox. Henry Holt & Company, $5.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-3122-5
The two latest outings by San Francisco homicide lieutenant Frank Hastings. (Sept.)
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Reviewed on: 08/29/1994
Genre: Fiction
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