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Author: Barnes, Linda
Series title:Carlotta Carlyle Mystery Ser.
ISBN:978-1-56895-856-9
Publication Date:Apr 2000
Publisher:Cengage Gale
Imprint:Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.95
Book Description:

Carlotta Carlyle thinks she's simply doing a friend a favor when she agrees to burglarproof an elderly recluse's apartment. But 24 hours later, when the woman turns up dead in her ransacked home, Carlotta finds herself with entertainment moguls and real estate magnates breathing down her neck. She is also left with a lot of questions: What is a suddenly vacant apartment worth to a greedy developer? What "article of value" was the woman so eager to protect? Why is there such...
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Author Biography
Barnes, Linda (Author)
Linda Barnes is a writer and educator. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. Barnes graduated from Boston University's School of Fine and Applied Arts majoring in acting, theater education, and English.

After graduation, Barnes taught theater in a Massachusetts high school. She wrote a one-act play that won a contest sponsored by the Boston Globe. The play Wings was published and performed across the country.

Barnes' first crime novel was published in 1981 and featured an amateur detective named Michael Spraggue. She continued with a series of books that featured Spraggue until a short story featured a new detective named Carlotta Carlyle. The first book in that series, A Trouble of Fools, won the American Mystery Award for best private eye novel of 1987. Barnes won the Anthony Award for Best Short Story for Lucky Penny in 1986.

Some of her other works include Deep Pockets, Heart Of The World and Lie Down With The Devil.

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