Hidden Agenda - Softcover

Porter, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451400259 ISBN 13: 9780451400253

Publisher: Berkley, 1987

Synopsis

Would a man about to kill himself make a dental appointment? Judith Hayes, a freelance journalist, doesn't think so. She was the last person to see George Harris alive before he left his Toronto publishing company and stepped - or was it pushed - in front of a speeding subway train.

The police called his death a suicide. Judith thinks it's murder. Gutsy and good-looking, Judith Hayes once worked for the handsome Harris. She knows his company is in the red, with millions owed to the bank. But when she'd interviewed him that afternoon for a magazine feature, he hadn't talked like a man planning his own death. He'd talked like a high-powered businessman with a breakthrough deal in the works and big dreams about to come true. But had one of those dreams turned into the nightmare that had gotten him killed?

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About the Author

Anna Porter is the author of three crime novels and an acclaimed memoir, The Storyteller. Her book Kasztner's Train won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and the Nereus Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize. Her most recent book is The Ghosts of Europe.

From Publishers Weekly

Porter informs her first novel with the authenticity of her experience in Canadian book publishing. Mystery surrounding the deaths of eminent book people in Toronto and New York challenges two good friendsJudith Hayes and Marsha Hillierto solve the case involving a missing manuscript. Judith is a divorced freelance writer whose son and daughter stay with their grandmother in Canada while the eager amateur sleuth visits Marsha in Manhattan. An editor at a paperback company, Marsha gives Judith details on the possible blockbuster status of the catalyst to killing, the manuscript pitting those set on publishing it against those adamantly opposed. As the women investigate, they invite dangerous attention, and so do Judith's children, whom the conspirators kidnap in a particularly suspenseful episode. The motive behind all the skullduggery is political intrigue of shocking proportions as disclosed in the offbeat story's finale. Although the author shows her unfamiliarity with Manhattan in certain geographical slips, her novel is otherwise believable and entertaining.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0451400259
• ISBN 13: 9780451400253
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 333