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The Only Woman in the Room: Episodes in My Life and Career As a Television Writer
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Product Description: (Applause Books). Rita Lakin was a pioneer a female scriptwriter in the early 1960s when Hollywood television was exclusively male. For years, in creative meetings she was literally "the only woman in the room." In this breezy but heartfelt remembrance, Lakin takes readers to a long-forgotten time when women were not considered worthy or welcome at the creative table...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9781495014055 | Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, September 1, 2015, cover price $29.99 | About this edition: (Applause Books).

Getting Old Can Kill You: A Mystery
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Product Description: Life isn’t all sunny in Fort Lauderdale’s Lanai Gardens. Returning from a blissful double honeymoon with her sister Evvie, Gladdy Gold announces that she wants her new hubby, Jack, to join her detective agency. But Gladdy’s gals say no dice, and soon Ida, Sophie, and Bella are striking out on their own, enrolling in a class to learn how to be real PIs...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9780440245605 | Dell Pub Co, June 28, 2011, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Life isn’t all sunny in Fort Lauderdale’s Lanai Gardens.

Getting Old Is Tres Dangereux: A Novel
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Product Description: Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey sances of a phony-baloney New Age guru. That's when Gladdy comes face to face with a dear departed friend with a message.
By Rita Lakin
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9780440245421 | Dell Pub Co, June 22, 2010, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Gladdy must save her busybody friends from the pricey sances of a phony-baloney New Age guru.

Getting Old is a Disaster
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Product Description: Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.I. Gladdy Gold is happy to be on her Florida turf again. Especially now that she and boyfriend Jack Langford are officially an item. But no sooner have the yenta brigade gotten back to their routine—complete with poolside stretching and kvetching—than a notorious outlaw, a...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9781410414298 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, April 1, 2009), cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Back from schlepping all over New York City, P.

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9780440243885 | Dell Pub Co, December 1, 2008, cover price $7.99

Getting Old Is to Die for
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Product Description: Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she’s loving every minute of it. Between poolside gossip, a hot-to-trot boyfriend, and a booming detective business, life couldn’t be sunnier—until a trip back north with her sister Evvie leads to murder and mayhem starring the usual suspects...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9781410406545 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 4, 2008), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Gladdy Gold may have gone from dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker to South Florida retiree, but she’s loving every minute of it.

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9780440243878 | Dell Pub Co, December 1, 2007, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Florida's oldest living private detective, Gladdy Gold is juggling poolside gossip, a boyfriend, and a thriving detective business, but a trip north with her sister and her Florida pals--Sophie, Bella, and Ida--gets them all in hot water, with her friends going undercover to nab a crook, and her boyfriend re-opening a decades-old case--the forty-year-old murder of her husband.

Getting Old Is Criminal
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Product Description: Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment. There she was, soaking in a hot tub with a man she adored, far from Fort Lauderdale and her nosy neighbors…until an urgent message sent her running home. Now her exotic vacation is a memory, Gladdy’s would-be beau, Jack, is furious, and not only are the girls of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency all alive and well—they’re onto a hot new murder case...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9780786297528 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 3, 2007), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Gladdy Gold had reached a golden moment.

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9780440243861 | Dell Pub Co, May 1, 2007, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Sleuth Gladdy Gold returns from her Fort Lauderdale vacation to find that the ladies of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency are hot on the trail of a killer who is preying on some of Florida's most luxurious communities, going undercover to protect Gladdy's drama queen sister Evvie who has fallen for the killer.

Getting Old Is the Best Revenge
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Product Description: “NEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!”That’s the motto of the Gladdy Gold Detective Agency. Don’t laugh: having solved a case of serial murder, Gladdy and her eccentric neighbors are building their reputation between canasta games and pool exercises–hunting down everything from lost pocketbooks to missing octogenarians...read more
By Rita Lakin
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9780786286294 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, June 7, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: “NEVER TRUST ANYONE UNDER SEVENTY-FIVE!

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9780440242598 | Dell Pub Co, March 28, 2006, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Senior citizen private detective Gladdy Gold and her eccentric team of cohorts risk everything to identify the killer who has been stalking wealthy socialites when the murderer turns up aboard their Bingo cruise, in the sequel to Getting Old Is Murder.

Getting Old Is Murder
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As a serial killer stalks the senior citizens of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, seventy-five-year-old Gladdy Gold and a group of eccentric retirees match wits with a handsome young police detective as they launch their own investigation to find the culprit.
By Rita Lakin
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9780786282814 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, February 2, 2006), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: As a serial killer stalks the senior citizens of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, seventy-five-year-old Gladdy Gold and a group of eccentric retirees match wits with a handsome young police detective as they launch their own investigation to find the culprit.

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9780440242581 | Reissue edition (Dell Pub Co, October 1, 2005), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: As a serial killer stalks the senior citizens of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, seventy-five-year-old Gladdy Gold and a group of eccentric retirees match wits with a handsome young police detective as they launch their own investigation to find the culprit, before another of their number falls prey to the murderer.

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