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Married outside of her blue-blood class to a genius investor who takes frequent business trips, features writer Maddie Dare endures long weeks alone in her industrial-city home and becomes involved in an investigation to clear her favorite cousin from a double murder charge. 30,000 first printing.

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A roman a clef by mystery writer Cornelia Read captured the characters of upstate New York as well as wealthy Long Island families. I don't often read murder mysteries, but I could not put this down, and I could not stop laughing.

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