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Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1992
Language
English
Description
Amanda is sorting books for a school fundraiser, when she comes across a book for battered women that contains a special and frightening message from its original, anonymous owner. Desperate to learn who donated the books, Amanda's search leads her to deliberate brutality and its cold-blooded consequences.
Author
Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 12
Language
English
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Philly Prep English teacher and part time sleuth Amanda Pepper searches for the killer of a man who left many enemies behind.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Well-known Broadway playwright and TV producer Lyle Zacharias is throwing himself a lavish birthday party in his hometown of Philadelphia. Guests include his current wife, ex-wives, friends, former partners-not to mention Amanda Pepper and her own irrepressible mother, Bea. Yet when Lyle drops dead in the middle of a speech, it appears the likely perpetrator is none other than Bea, whose gift was fifty delicious, but apparently poisoned, tarts! It's...
Author
Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
In the City of Brotherly Love, nobody knows a thing about Emmie Cade, a young widow who "appeared from nowhere," and in the blink of an eye was engaged to Leo Fairchild, a middle-aged bachelor with a fortune. However, as her marriage date approaches, Emmie's mother-in-law to be, the ailing, autocratic Claire Fairchild, receives anonymous letters. They suggest, none too subtly, that there's a great deal to learn about the mysterious young woman, none...
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Language
English
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The ultra-elegant fund-raiser in a fabled Main Line mansion benefits Philly Prep's Library, and gives Amanda a chance to play Cinderella for a night. The first clue that all might not go well is the host's figure hanging in effigy outside the estate, put there by the Moral Ecologists who have a long list of classic books that "pollute the mind." When murder follows, Amanda becomes enmeshed in old secrets and young lives.
Author
Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Summer school teacher Amanda Pepper probes a series of racial incidents, one of which leads to the murder of a Vietnamese student. White supremacist students are suspected. By the author of How I Spent My Summer Vacation.
Author
Series
Amanda Pepper mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
No matter the season, the Philadelphia private school where Amanda Pepper teaches English is never a center of tranquility. But with Halloween and the annual Mischief Night party only days away, the hope is that nothing more than old-fashioned vandalism and pranks will take place. No such luck. Trouble erupts long before the witching hour, as the school is plagued by a series of mishaps ranging from the trivial to the potentially deadly–and most...
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