Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (214p) ISBN 978-0-684-19089-1
Paul's new novel may not receive the unstinted praise previously accorded her sophisticated, original mysteries. A want of symmetry in plot weakens this saga of King Sarcowicz--called ``Sauerkraut,'' because he is very tall and clumsy, yet envied...
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (254p) ISBN 978-0-684-19715-9
Veteran Paul (The Apostrophe Thief) pens another nifty chapter in the casebook of policewoman Marian Larch, recently promoted to lieutenant in the NYPD's Midtown South Precinct. Standing out from the usual round of crimes is the murder of elderly...
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-684-18426-5
Paul, who gave New York's entertainment world the once-over in The Renewable Virgin, turns here to the magazine industry. Leon Walsh, a whiny individual but a brilliant editor, has been unhappy ever since he sold a majority share in Summit, the...
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $13.95 (252p) ISBN 978-0-684-18615-3
A belabored spoof on the genre, Paul's (Kill Fee latest mystery begins when miserly old Vincent Farwell announces he will not extend his $1.5 million loan to Ellandy Jewels. The six young people assembled, all with varied interests in Ellandy, leave
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Barbara Paul, Author Gale Cengage $20 (249p) ISBN 978-0-684-19380-9
Written in a terse, clipped style, this action-packed NYPD procedural follows Sgt. Marian Larch ( The Renewable Virgin ) as she heads up an investigation and tries to salvage her faltering love life. One day, while Larch is on duty in Manhattan's...
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Barbara Paul, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (234p) ISBN 978-0-312-00576-4
Christmas season at the Metropolitan Opera in 1920 features Enrico Caruso and Geraldine Farrar in a varied schedule of mostly Italian operas. For members of the Metropolitan chorus, however, the season's main feature is danger. An urn falls on the...
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-18925-3
A delightfully diabolic whodunit, this is a fast-paced romp in which the cops are the only good guys. Financier A. J. Strode is accustomed to getting his own way even if unscrupulous tactics must be employed. He covets ownership of House of Glass, a
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19263-5
Veteran mystery writer Paul ( The Renewable Virgin ) here crafts an absorbing, suitably horrific mystery that centers around the wealthy and influential Decker clan, a politically powerful and much-publicized Boston family experiencing a nightmare:...
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Barbara Paul, Author Scribner Book Company $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19553-7
The veteran author of You Have the Right to Remain Silent and other mysteries features Detective Sergeant Marian Larch of the NYPD Ninth Precinct in an unconvincing police procedural. As the story begins, Marian is in crisis. Plagued by a two-faced...
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