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Name: This Dame For Hire
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)
Author: Sandra Scoppettone
ISBN: 9780345478108

This Dame For Hire

by Sandra Scoppettone

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First Published:
Jul 1, 2005, 272 pages

Paperback:
Jun 2006, 304 pages

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- Mystery
- USA
- Mid-Atlantic, USA
- New York State
- 1940s & '50s
- 1st in Series
- Strong Women
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I thought about when West shook his head at his wife and knew it could've meant a simple no to my question, but I felt it meant something else.

I didn't know what it was.

But I knew I'd find out.

Excerpted from This Dame for Hire by Sandra Scoppettone Copyright © 2005 by Sandra Scoppettone. Excerpted by permission of Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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