Yaron Svoray, Author, Richard Hammer, Author Forge $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0795-8
What looks, at first, like a different kind of Holocaust tale--in which an Israeli journalist spends 11 years (1988-1999) searching for diamonds buried in a World War II foxhole in France--quickly reveals itself as a would-be Hollywood thriller,...
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Richard Hammer, Author Franklin Watts $0 (323p) ISBN 978-0-531-15098-6
In this slow, predictable novel, former journalist Hammer ( The CBS Murders , Hoffa's Crime ), turns away from the subjects that established his reputation: war and crime. Here he explores a corrupt Hollywood and its effects on the marriage of...
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Richard Hammer, Author Dutton Books $18.95 (337p) ISBN 978-0-453-00682-8
True-crime author Hammer ( The CBS Murder ; Court-Martial of Lt. Calley ) here describes the careers of New York real-estate operator Harry Helmsley and his second wife, Leona, who managed the Helmsley hotel chain and was recently convicted of tax...
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Richard Hammer, Author, John R. Wales, Author William Morrow & Company $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06609-3
On Easter Monday of 1982, Margaret Barbera, an accountant, was shot to death in a parking lot on a Manhattan pier; three technicians from the nearby CBS-TV studios who went to her rescue also were killed. Hammer here recreates the crime and the...
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