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Dying Cheek to Cheek
by Diane K Shah (1945- )
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0385422504
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422505
- Seller
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About This Item
375 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's quarter grey cloth with silver lettering to spine over grey boards. First edition.
Hollywood, 1947. When Jim St. Clair, L.A.'s first TV newscaster is shot, Jim's junior colleague Paris Chandler, gossip- mongering Etta Rice's assistant on the L.A. Examiner, has a special reason to dig into the crime: She knows—as the police only suspect—that the attractive blond seen leaving Jim's house 20 minutes before he was shot was her. Before Paris and a telltale negligee can get hauled in by starstruck Chief Harry Gladstone, who dreams of his own TV show, she's got to: find Jim's records of an ingenious real-estate scam involving the right-of-way for the new freeway; foil the killers who keep kidnapping her, as well as Ursula Martens, a treacherous blond who happens to be Paris's double; continue to dish the dirt on Hollywood notables (``FLASH! Cary Grant Fires His Housekeeper''); and catfight Ursula for the embraces of Etta's other assistant, Nick. Chauffeured, Schiaparelli'd working-stiff Paris (the paperback As Crime Goes By, 1990) is only half as cute as she thinks, and here she overstays her welcome, the twists of Shah's promising plot, and the fey period cameos by a hundred pages or so.
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
Hollywood, 1947. When Jim St. Clair, L.A.'s first TV newscaster is shot, Jim's junior colleague Paris Chandler, gossip- mongering Etta Rice's assistant on the L.A. Examiner, has a special reason to dig into the crime: She knows—as the police only suspect—that the attractive blond seen leaving Jim's house 20 minutes before he was shot was her. Before Paris and a telltale negligee can get hauled in by starstruck Chief Harry Gladstone, who dreams of his own TV show, she's got to: find Jim's records of an ingenious real-estate scam involving the right-of-way for the new freeway; foil the killers who keep kidnapping her, as well as Ursula Martens, a treacherous blond who happens to be Paris's double; continue to dish the dirt on Hollywood notables (``FLASH! Cary Grant Fires His Housekeeper''); and catfight Ursula for the embraces of Etta's other assistant, Nick. Chauffeured, Schiaparelli'd working-stiff Paris (the paperback As Crime Goes By, 1990) is only half as cute as she thinks, and here she overstays her welcome, the twists of Shah's promising plot, and the fey period cameos by a hundred pages or so.
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- L2045
- Title
- Dying Cheek to Cheek
- Author
- Diane K Shah (1945- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0385422504
- ISBN 13
- 9780385422505
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, and Auckland
- Date Published
- 1992
- Pages
- 375 pages
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Mystery, Espionage. Detective and Thriller
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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