Turkish White

ARRIGHI, MEL

Harcourt, Brace. Jovanovich

Over lunch at Perigord, crack mystery writer Hank Mercer declares, "I'm through with Biff Deegan!"  Hank wants to forsake this uncouth hulk of a private eye for and erudite, tasteful man-about-town sleuth named Amos Frisby.  Mercer's editor shrewdly reminds his friend that Bill has been their bread and butter for years.  But by the end of lunch, Hank has persuaded the canny Norman Wagstaff to strike and unusual bargain: if Hand can discover and solve a real-life mystery, using Frisby's methods of deduction then he can leave Biff to the fate of the pulp shredder forever.

Alter Ego: A Hank and Biff Mystery

Literature & Fiction

United States

St Martins Pr

Carl Hopkins, a wordly-wise New York writer, needs material for a new book to cure a bout of writer's block and help pay off his alimony debts. When he meets Mirella Ludovisi, a sensuously beautiful Italian aristocrat, he senses that this aristocratic woman could provide the story he's looking for. Mirella's wealthy American fiance, once a friend of Carls, has recently died in mysterious circumstances, and there are dark rumors about the role she may have played in her lover's death. Powerfully drawn by her beauty and his own curiosity, Carl plunges into an affair with her. One shocking discovery follows another, and Carl finds himself living out a gothic story that is stranger and more terrifying than anything he can devise on paper. In danger of losing everything- his career, the decent woman who loves him, and perhaps even his life, he still compulsively pursues the elusive secret that lies at the heart of Mirella's mystery.

Manhattan Gothic

St.Martin's Press

<p>New condition paperback book, no marks, no wear. To Nick a Good Body by Norman.</p>

Alter Ego

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Interlink Publishing+group Inc

An Ordinary Man

Peter H. Wyden

<p>Carl Hopkins, a worldly-wise New York writer, needs material for a new book to cure a bout of writer's block and help pay off his alimony debts. When he meets Mirella Ludovisi, a sensuously beautiful Italian aristocrat, he senses that this enigmatic woman could provide the story he is looking for. Mirella's wealthy American Fiance, once a friend of Carl's, has recently died in mysterious circumstances, and there are dark rumors about the role she may have played in her lover's death. Powerfully drawn by her beauty and his own curiosity, Carl plunges into an affair with Mirella, and soon he is obsessed, not only with learning her secrets, but with the woman herself. One shocking discovery follows another, and Carl finds himself living out a gothic story that is stranger and more terrifying that anything he can devise on paper. In danger of losing everything - his career, the decent woman who loves him, and perhaps even his life, he still complusively pursues the elusive secret that lies t the heart of Mirella's mystery.</p>

Contemporary

Vivisphere Pub

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