Murder Can Mess Up Your Mascara (Desiree Shapiro Mystery #12) - Hardcover

Selma Eichler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786273437 ISBN 13: 9780786273430

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2005

Synopsis

Includes a tasty new recipe

Plus-sized New York PI Desiree Shapiro's latest client is harder to say no to than Little Angie's pizza. Fearful of accepting the responsibility for someone's life Desiree prefers to take cases after the body has been carted away. But there have already been two attempts to kill pharmaceutical exec Gordon Curry, and he wants Desiree to prevent number three.

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From Publishers Weekly:

New York PI Desiree Shapiro, last seen in Murder Can Botch Up YourBirthday, doesn't like to accept cases until after the victim is dead. But when the charming Gordon Curry shows up in her office claiming that there have already been two attempts on his life and he wants her to prevent the third, she can't say no, especially since he supplies her with his predator's name. Two days later, Curry is shot down on a quiet Chelsea street after a poker game, and Desiree learns that the man who Curry thought wanted him dead committed suicide two months earlier. Distraught, the plus-sized detective almost loses her appetite, but not quite, especially when she learns there were a slew of sordid secrets about Curry's life that he neglected to mention to her. With the help of a few colorful New York characters, including a curmudgeonly policeman, Desiree puts together a list of suspects and interviews them all in grand Hercule Poirot fashion, sacrificing sleep and other life necessities to do so. A hasty, underdeveloped ending doesn't do justice to this otherwise tightly constructed cozy. But tantalizing meal descriptions, old-school New York charm and even a touch of romance make this book worth gobbling up.
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Review:

"Each new book is the Häagen Dazs of the mystery world."
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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0786273437
• ISBN 13: 9780786273430
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376