Anna Peters, the unorthodox New World Oil Company researcher, learns the price of the good research job she obtained after her successful adventures in The Big Payoff. The Chairman of the Board wants her to do a little favor: track down Crystal Blythe, a feckless young woman soon to inherit the lions share of New World stock. Crystal and her twin brother Edward have been living in France, and Anna is dispatched on a working holiday to locate the missing girl.Paris, art, culture, great foodthe trip sounds terrific. Unfortunately for Anna and her artist lover Harry Radford, the young Blythes have gotten themselves into bad company, including gun runners and espionage agents from two countries. Anna learns she cant trust the charming and talented Blythes, and wonders if they can even trust each other.
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About the Author:
Although I never envisioned writing a series of detective stories, Anna Peters, whose first outing was in the Edgar nominee, The Big Payoff, has refused to go away, attracting trouble both in and out of the corporate world.Besides novels, I have published articles and short stories. My day job is teaching English at the University of Connecticut.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0395257034
- ISBN 13 9780395257036
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages179