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DEAD MAN'S FLOATGood food, rich company and a great story on how the other half lives combine for an assignment free-lance journalist Cat Marsala just can't pass up. Except for the fact that all this eating and making merry will take place on a gorgeous sixty-two-foot sloop-and Cat hates boats and water.But she has a nose for trouble even if she lacks sea legs, and trouble is definitely brewing aboard the Easy Girl. The yacht's passenger list reads like a television drama-complete with show more characters whose real lives are laced with passion, scandal, vengeance... and murder.The killer strikes behind a locked door-and there are witnesses to prove no one went in or out of the victim's stateroom. It's a crime that couldn't have happened. Now Cat is hunting a killer in the middle of Lake Michigan-risky business for a woman who can't swim. show lessTags
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Barbara D'Amato is a playwright, novelist, and crime researcher. She was born in Michigan. D'Amato held jobs as a carpenter on magic shows, assistant surgical orderly, assistant to a wild animal act, stage manager, and legal researcher. She is a past president of Sisters in Crime International and serves on the board of the Mystery Writers of show more America. D'Amato wrote a children's musical, The Magic of Young Houdini, and two musical comedies for adults. She was nominated for the Anthony award for her novel On My Honor and was the runner-up for the Nero Wolfe Award for the novel Hard Women. The Doctor, The Murder, The Mystery won the Anthony and Agatha Awards for Best True Crime and was used as the basis for a segment on the TV show, Unsolved Mysteries. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Adey's Locked Room Murders (0560)
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- Canonical title
- Hard Tack
- Original publication date
- 1991
- People/Characters
- Cat Marsala; Will Honeywell; Belinda Honeywell; Dr Daniel Silverman; Twinkie Mandel
- Important places
- Chicago, Illinois, USA; Lake Michigan; Holland, Michigan
- Dedication
- To Harold Steketee, the finest possible brother, also technical adviser for this book.
- First words
- Chuck's body sprawled on its back on the bank.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Now that's class.
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