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A Really Cute Corpse

A Really Cute Corpse( )
Author: Hess, Joan
Series title:Claire Malloy Mysteries Ser.
ISBN:978-0-345-36158-5
Publication Date:Nov 1991
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Fawcett
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $4.99
Book Description:

Claire Malloy is back. And this time she is the reluctant director of the Miss Thurberfest beauty pagent in Farberville. She's being driven to distraction by the usual baton twirlers, off-key singers, lead-foot dancers and town hysteria, so she's hardly prepared when a sandbag crashes onstage barely missing the queen of the pagent, and a bullet pierces her open convertible. Murder is not far behind--and that starts Claire poking around where somebody doesn't want her to be--until she...
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Book Details
Pages:247
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Southern
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.21 x 6.9 x 0.57 Inches
Book Weight:0.281 Pounds
Author Biography
Hess, Joan (Author)
Joan Hess was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 1949. She received a bachelor's degree in art from the University of Arkansas in 1971 and a master's degree in education from Long Island University in 1974. For several years, she taught art in a private preschool.

Her first book, Strangled Prose, was published in 1986. She was the author of the Claire Malloy Mystery series and the Arly Hanks Mystery series. A Diet to Die For won the American Mystery Award for best traditional novel of 1989. A short story, Too Much to Bare, received the Agatha Award in 1990 and the McCavity Award in 1991. She also wrote the Theo Bloomer series under the pseudonym Joan Hadley. She finished the final Amelia Peabody novel, The Painted Queen, using the notes of Elizabeth Peters and their conversations to finish the book. It was published in 2017. She died on November 23, 2017 at the age of 68.

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