Hard Tack

D'Amato, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0684192993 / ISBN 13: 9780684192994

Published by Scribners, New York, 1991

About this Item

First printing of first edition. Signed by the author on title page. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. Appears to be unread. Bookseller Inventory # 36911

Bibliographic Details

Title: Hard Tack

Publisher: Scribners, New York

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Hard Cover

Book Condition:Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

Chicago journalist and amateur sleuth Cat Marsala is looking forward to a cruise aboard a million-dollar yacht, but she soon finds herself embroiled in a baffling locked-room mystery aboard ship and the possible target of a killer

About the Author:

Barbara D'Amato was the 1999-2000 president of Mystery Writers of America. D'Amato is also a past president of Sisters in Crime International. She writes a mystery series starring Chicago freelance investigative reporter Cat Marsala, a series starring Chicago patrol cops Suze Figueroa and Norm Bennis, and standalone novels. D'Amato is a playwright, novelist, and crime researcher. Her research on the Dr. John Branion murder case formed the basis for a segment on Unsolved Mysteries, and she appeared on the program. Her musical comedy The Magic Man and the children's musical The Magic of Young Houdini, written with husband Anthony D'Amato, played in Chicago and London. Their Prohibition-era musical comedy RSVP Broadway, which played in Chicago in 1980, was named an "event of particular interest" by Chicago magazine. A native of Michigan, she has been a resident of Chicago for many years. D'Amato has been a columnist for the Sisters in Crime newsletter and Mystery Scene magazine. She has worked as an assistant surgical orderly, carpenter for stage magic illusions, assistant tiger handler, stage manager, researcher for attorneys in criminal cases, and she occasionally teaches mystery writing to Chicago police officers.