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In the stately nineteenth-century homes on Philadelphia's Delancey Street, the wilder passions scarcely ruffle the peace. Murder is unthinkable, particularly a murder involving an upscale book discussion group, of which schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is a devoted member. Nevertheless, on the day after a heated discussion of a fictional heroine's suicide, book group member Helen Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen's death is declared a suicide but Amanda is convinced otherwise. Why is this admirable woman dead? And if she was killed, who performed the heinous act? Amanda's…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
In the stately nineteenth-century homes on Philadelphia's Delancey Street, the wilder passions scarcely ruffle the peace. Murder is unthinkable, particularly a murder involving an upscale book discussion group, of which schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is a devoted member. Nevertheless, on the day after a heated discussion of a fictional heroine's suicide, book group member Helen Coulter falls to her death from her roof garden. Helen's death is declared a suicide but Amanda is convinced otherwise. Why is this admirable woman dead? And if she was killed, who performed the heinous act? Amanda's investigations will draw her into a zone of great danger, where Helen Coulter's ice-hearted killer is once more ready to strike. . . .
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Autorenporträt
Gillian Roberts is the nom de mystère taken by Judith Greber, a former high school English teacher who has taught writing for College of Marin, Book Passage, Writer's Digest and the University of San Francisco Master's in Writing program. Under her own name, she's written four mainstream novels: Easy Answers, The Silent Partner, Mendocino, and As Good As It Gets. As Gillian Roberts, she's written over a dozen anthologized short stories and a mystery series featuring a Philadelphia high school English teacher named Amanda Pepper. Caught Dead in Philadelphia won the World Mystery Convention's "Anthony" for Best First Mystery of 1987. Following in the series are: Philly Stakes, I'd Rather Be in Philadelphia, With Friends Like These..., How I Spent My Summer Vacation, In the Dead of Summer, The Mummers' Curse, The Bluest Blood, Adam and Evil, Helen Hath No Fury, Claire and Present Danger, Till the End of Tom, A Hole in Juan and All's Well that Ends. All have been Mystery Guild selections and translated into Japanese, German and Danish and are available in audio versions as well. Native Philadelphians, Judith and Robert Greber live in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are the parents of two adult sons.