New York: Avon Books. Very Good. 1998. 1st Avon Books Paperback Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Mild spine crease. Full number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. . 1 x 6.7 x 4.1 Inches. 320 pages. A Henrie O Mystery, No. 3. A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone of her own illustrious career. So when beautiful, ambitious Maggie Winslow decides to investigate a trio of hitherto unresolved local crimes, Henrie O urges her to pursue the story with uncommon vigor. But the gifted future journalist's zeal may have cost her her life. The next day Maggie's corpse is discovered in Lovers' Lane--the very site of one of the unsolved mysteries the extraordinary young woman was exploring at the time of her brutal, premature death. The police and the Thorndyke powers-that-be are rabidly against Henrie O's involvement in the case. But, for Maggie's sake, the stubborn, sixtysomething investigator is determined to dredge up a past everyone seems to want to keep buried even if it means placing herself firmly in a relentless killer's path. .

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone of her own illustrious career. So when beautiful, ambitious Maggie Winslow decides to investigate a trio of hitherto unresolved local crimes, Henrie O urges her to pursue the story with uncommon vigor.But the gifted future journalist's zeal may have cost her her life. The next day Maggie's corpse is discovered in Lovers' Lane--the very site of one of the unsolved mysteries the extraordinary young woman was exploring at the time of her brutal, premature death. The police and the Thorndyke powers-that-be are rabidly against Henrie O's involvement in the case. But, for Maggie's sake, the stubborn, sixtysomething investigator is determined to dredge up a past everyone seems to want to keep buried even if it means placing herself firmly in a relentless killer's path.

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Bookseller: Storbeck's (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 602261
Title: Death in Lovers' Lane
Author: Hart, Carolyn
Format/Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Edition: 1st Avon Books Paperback Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0380790025
ISBN 13: 9780380790029
Publisher: Avon Books
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: FICTION, MYSTERY DETECTIVE, WOMEN SLEUTHS
Bookseller catalogs: Fiction / Mystery/Detective-MassMarketPB / Women Sleuths;

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