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The Alpine Gamble by Mary Daheim

The Alpine Gamble by Mary Daheim

      
THE ALPINE ADVOCATE IS ON A ROLL.

The big story is the five-million-dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs--hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for the paper's editor and publisher, Emma Lord.

Pro-spa Alpiners cite the prospect of sorely needed new jobs. Those against it predict glitz, sleaze, and an avalanche of "Californicators." No one foresees the murder that shocks the town. Aided by her House & Home editor, Vida Runkel, and tongue-tied Sheriff Milo Dodge, Emma lines up her biggest, blackest headlines and goes hunting--for a brilliant killer and the strange story behind an almost perfect crime....

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First Edition

Paperback

Aug-1996

Ballantine

ISBN: 0345396413

ISBN13: 9780345396419

eBook

Dec-2008

Random House

ISBN: 0307554244

ISBN13: 9780307554246


eBook (Kindle)

Dec-2008

Fawcett

Hardcover

Dec-1999

Thomas T. Beeler

Large Print

ISBN: 1574902105

ISBN13: 9781574902105

 

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published

Aug-1996

author series

An Emma Lord Mystery - 7

time period

Contemporary

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Amateur Sleuth

Cozy Mystery

people / creatures

Women Sleuths