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Hardcover:
9781575663142 | Kensington Pub Corp, August 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Nightclub owner and occasional sleuth Charlie Plato decides to take a self-defense class and befriends Estrella--a woman abused by her husband--and when Estrella is murdered, Charlie, along with her business partner Zack Hunter, plunges into a world where nothing is what it seems and danger lurks around every corner
Paperback:
9781575664361 | Kensington Pub Corp, June 1, 1999, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Nightclub owner and occasional sleuth Charlie Plato befriends Estrella--a woman abused by her husband--and when Estrella is murdered, Charlie and her business partner Zack Hunter plunge into a world of cold-blooded murder.
Hardcover:
9780786217298 | Five Star, February 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Before dozens of fictional female private investigators took to the mean streets, Delilah West had been there.
Hardcover:
9781575661841, titled "Dead Men Don't Dance" | Kensington Pub Corp, July 1, 1997, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Divorcee Charlie Plato, manager of a country-western nightclub, turns detective when Zack Hunter, a handsome ex-TV heartthrob running for city council, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his political opponent, who is found dead in the trunk of Zack's new car
Paperback:
9781575663180, titled "Dead Men Don't Dance" | Kensington Pub Corp, August 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Occasional sleuth and nightclub owner Charlie Plato finds her investigative instincts kicking in when political candidate Zack Hunter's opponent is found dead in the trunk of Zack's car.
In her latest case, the supposed suicide of a Sacramento attorney leads private detective Kat Colorado to odd goings-on at a children's charity, whose benefactors include an extortionist and whose employees include an embezzler. Reprint. NYT.
Hardcover:
9780399142451 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1997, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Private detective Kat Colorado decides to look into the mysterious suicide of James Randolph, a Sacramento attorney, but in doing so, she unveils a world of blackmail and deception that leads to violent threats against her, her family, and her friends
Paperback:
9780425163399 | Berkley Pub Group, June 1, 1998, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Private detective Kat Colorado decides to look into the mysterious suicide of James Randolph, a Sacramento attorney, but in doing so, she unveils a world of blackmail and deception that leads to violent threats against her, her family, and her friends
Hardcover:
9780783884042 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, April 1, 1998), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Sassy P.
9780312168209 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Sassy P.
Hardcover:
9780425156308 | Berkley Pub Group, March 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Fortysomething entrepreneur, vegetarian, and amateur sleuth Kate Jasper finds herself caught up in a murder investigation when a famed self-help guru takes a fatal plunge off a seaside cliff during an aquatic wedding
Paperback:
9780425162651 | Prime Crime, April 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Fortysomething entrepreneur, vegetarian, and amateur sleuth Kate Jasper finds herself caught up in a murder investigation when a famed self-help guru takes a fatal plunge off a seaside cliff during an aquatic wedding
Hardcover:
9780425161487 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1998, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Witty amateur sleuth Kate Jasper attends a rather tame bookstore reading that livens up considerably when one of the guest authors falls over dead
The murder of Kat Colorado's 'courtesy cousin', a young man who is the nephew of Kat's informally adopted grandmother, leads Kat to probe the foibles and problematic past of the old woman's clan
Hardcover:
9780312046798 | St Martins Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The murder of Kat Colorado's 'courtesy cousin', a young man who is the nephew of Kat's informally adopted grandmother, leads Kat to probe the foibles and problematic past of the old woman's clan
Paperback:
9780380714865 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $5.99
9780380714865 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $5.99
When private eye Kat Colorado accepts a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman
Hardcover:
9780312029692 | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When private eye Kat Colorado accept a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman
Paperback:
9780380711871 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, August 1, 1997), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: When private eye Kat Colorado accepts a routine assignment investigating one man's finances, she never dreams that she will become embroiled in the elaborate, illegal, and dangerous scheming of a madman
Hardcover:
9781575660523 | Kensington Pub Corp, July 1, 1996, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: When an earthquake reveals a skeleton in the backyard of Chaps, California's hottest country-western bar, lively divorcee Charlie Plato, who lives upstairs, turns sleuth with the help of her business partner Zack Hunter to find out which of her Bellamy Park neighbors is hiding a deadly secret
Paperback:
9781575661896 | Kensington Pub Corp, July 1, 1997, cover price $5.50 | About this edition: When an earthquake unearths a skeleton in the backyard of Chaps, California's hottest country-western bar, lively divorcee Charlie Plato, who lives upstairs, turns sleuth with the help of her business partner, Zack Hunter, to find out which of her Bellamy Park neighbors is hiding a deadly secret.
Paperback:
9780425157213 | Reprint edition (Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1997), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: While attending her class reunion, gag gift designer and amateur sleuth Kate Jasper witnesses the antics of prankster and former class clown Sid Semling, whose untimely electrocution by Kate's pinball machine makes Kate a murder suspect
9780425151464 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1996, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: While attending her class reunion, gag gift designer and amateur sleuth Kate Jasper witnesses the antics of prankster and former class clown Sid Semling, whose untimely electrocution by Kate's pinball machine makes Kate a murder suspect
Hardcover:
9780312145699 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1997, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Parapsychologist and licensed private eye Elizabeth Chase finds herself in too deep while working with victims of a serial rapist, but when she tries to back away from the case she only ends up coming ever closer to its deadly conclusion
Hardcover:
9780385468527 | Doubleday, June 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Kat Colorado faces another case when she comes upon the mangled body of a young woman at the side of the road, just as she is trying to cope with her boyfriend's apparent infidelity
Paperback:
9780553573152 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, May 1, 1996), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Kat Colorado faces another case when she comes upon the mangled body of a young woman at the side of the road, just as she is trying to cope with her boyfriend's apparent infidelity
Hardcover:
9780425151457 | Berkley Pub Group, April 1, 1996, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: While attending her class reunion, gag gift designer and amateur sleuth Kate Jasper witnesses the antics of prankster and former class clown Sid Semling, whose untimely electrocution by Kate's pinball machine makes Kate a murder suspect
Hardcover:
9780312110819, titled "Trade-Off" | St Martins Pr, June 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: When tough, sassy California P.
Paperback:
9780373261918 | Reprint edition (Worldwide Library, January 1, 1996), cover price $4.99 | About this edition: Savvy California private investigator Delilah West is hired to find the teenage daughter of Benjamin Wylie, but things turn nasty when Delilah discovers the murdered body of Kate Sannerman, her client's neighbor.
Hardcover:
9780312092436 | St Martins Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Art restorer Andrea Perkins is working on a commission from the Huntington Museum, and when a murder on museum grounds involves her hostess' family, Andrea tries her hand at detective work
Paperback:
9780373261857 | Harlequin Books, December 1, 1995, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Too absorbed in her museum restoration project to get involved with a murder investigation, Andrea Perkins leaves the case in the hands of two LAPD detectives, until one of the museum's board members is targeted.
Hardcover:
9780312135676 | Minotaur Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Elizabeth Chase, a private eye with psychic abilities, uses her special talents to search for the killer of Janice Freeman, but when she gets close to the truth, even the intervention of the stars may not save her
Hired by twenty-one-year-old 'orphan' Paige Morrell to unravel the mystery of her past, Sacramento private eye Kat Colorado finds herself following a trail of lies, greed, and deceit. Reprint. LJ. AB. PW.
Hardcover:
9780385420952 | Doubleday, February 1, 1992, cover price $18.50 | About this edition: Kat Colorado, a private detective, is hired to delve into the dangerous mysteries of the birth and parentage of a young woman, and finds herself investigating the mysterious death of a key source to the woman's past
Paperback:
9780553293913 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, February 1, 1995), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Kat Colorado, a private detective, is hired to delve into the dangerous mysteries of the birth and parentage of a young woman, and finds herself investigating the mysterious death of a key source to the woman's past
Hardcover:
9780385468510 | Doubleday, February 1, 1994, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Detective Kat Colorado is hired by a corporate whistle-blower for protection and learns some lethal lessons about love and vengeance
Paperback:
9780553568776 | Reprint edition (Bantam Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Blowing the whistle on her company when it tries to cover up a defective and potentially lethal product, Amanda Hudson and her husband Jude are forced to hire Sacramento P.
Hardcover:
9780312469696, titled "The Last Annual Slugfest" | St Martins Pr, July 1, 1986, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: When Edwina Henderson, town magnate, dies after taste-testing a slug pizza during the county fair of the California slug, it is up to Vejay Haskell to find the person who poisoned her
Paperback:
9780440613695 | Dell Pub Co, September 1, 1994, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Investigating the poisoning murder of one of the judges at the annual Slugfest, a celebration featuring slug races and a cooked slug cuisine, meter reader Vejay Haskell uncovers a missing document and a secret lover.
Paperback:
9780380720378 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, July 1, 1994), cover price $5.50 | also contains The Night Searchers | About this edition: After the president is assassinated--the first move in Libyan dictator Muammar al-Quaddafi's plan to destroy the United States--the vice-president struggles to save the lives of the passengers of an American plane hijacked by terrorists.
Hardcover:
9780312064624 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, November 1, 1991), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Working for her high-profile, politically connected clients, scrappy private investigator Delilah West becomes caught between urban developers and environmental advocates
Paperback:
9780373261444 | Reprint edition (Harlequin Books, May 1, 1994), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: After private investigator Deliah West goes undercover in the Orange County supervisor's office to find an embezzler, the guilty employee soon turns up dead, and the alleged murderer, a Los Angeles councilwoman, hires West to prove her innocence.
Paperback:
9780316177658 | Little Brown & Co, November 1, 1992, cover price $3.95 | also contains The Night Searchers | About this edition: Batman is assisted by eleven-year-old Toby Tyler in battling the Joker, who has taken to the skies in command of an airborne pirate ship
Hardcover:
9781410406842 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 18, 2008), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: A New York Times Bestseller -- He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who's done him a favor and pass on a check for $25,000.
Paperback:
9781250020260 | 2 edition (Griffin, October 2, 2012), cover price $14.99
9780816151479 | Large print edition (G K Hall & Co, February 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Detective Kinsey Millhone discovers that many people wanted John Daggett dead, including the wife who faced an intolerable marriage, the daughter who hated her lying father, and the families of the victims of Daggett's drunken driving
Hardcover:
9780312025847 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Before Kinsey Millhone, before VI Warshawski, there was Delilah West, the tough-but-sensitive PI who shattered the boundaries of mystery fiction.
Paperback:
9780312924409 | St Martins Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Orange County private investigator Delilah West is nearly run down by a hit and run driver, and though badly in need of a case, she is reluctant to take on this one when asked by the driver's mother
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