Selma Eichler

• May-2008
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Is truth stranger than fiction? Her love affair with her boyfriend, Nick, is in jeopardy, and her career is in free fall. So when full-figured Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is invited to speak at a mystery writers' convention in Connecticut, she fi...

• Feb-2007
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Two deaths for the price of one? Zaftig Manhattan PI Desiree Shapiro is ogling the earrings at Bloomingdale's when her friend Blossom Goody catches up with her. The son of one of Blossom's old pals has been mysteriously shot and killed, and Blosso...

• Feb-2006
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Misstep or Murder? Flying home from a friend's wedding in Minneapolis, Desiree is seated alongside an attorney traveling to New York for a funeral. It seems his beloved aunt Bessie died from a fall down the basement steps. Before long, however, th...

• Feb-2005
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New York's plus-size PI, Desiree Shapiro, discovers that her latest would-be client is harder to say no to than a second--make that a third--slice of Little Angie's pizza. There have already been two attempts to kill charismatic pharmaceutical exec G...

• Mar-2004
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No one can say that Desiree Shapiro, New York's chubbiest PI, isn't a soft touch. That's why when teenager Vicky Pirrelli wants to find out who really killed her father's mistress--a crime for which he went to jail--Desiree decides to ignore all the ...

• Mar-2003
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Desiree Shapiro's niece, Ellen, will soon be saying, "I do." So Manhattan's pudgiest P.I. teams up with Ellen's future mother-in-lain to give the bride-to-be a truly memorable shower. And memorable, it is. After all, when a guest takes a few bites of...

• Mar-2002
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Rich-as-Croesus Uncle Victor has only a few months to live. Edward, his favorite nephew and heir to his fortune, was recently shot to death. Now a second nephew, John Lander--the next in line to inherit--is enlisting the help of Manhattan PI Desiree ...

• Jun-2001
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WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION. Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all? In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...

• Mar-2001
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"Someone is trying to kill me!" Rich philanthropist Miriam Weiden left these chilling words on Desiree Shapiro's answering machine just hours before she was murdered. Now two questions haunt Manhattan's plumpest PI: Why would anyone murder a wonderfu...

• Feb-2000
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Normally, pudgy private eye Desiree Shapiro would turn down a job no more than she would a second helping of chocolate mousse. But this case is decidedly unappetizing. Her new client is powerful crime boss Vito da Silva, and he wants her to find out ...

• Jan-1999
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Desiree Shapiro is a big woman, in both body and heart. And it's her big heart that gets her into this mess--investigating the suspicious death of her ex-boyfriend's new wife. Bruce Simon had been a louse when they were dating...but no matter how ...

• Jan-1998
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AN APPETITE FOR CRIME... Well-rounded P.I. Desiree Shapiro brings as much gusto to solving an unsavory crime as she does to creating--and consuming--a savory salmon mousse. But the demise of Luella Pressman has her stumped. The well-known children...

• Jan-1997
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A CRAVING FOR THE TRUTH Private eye Desiree Shapiro has as much a talent for murder as she does for whipping up--and polishing off--a cold lemon souffle. And New York's chubbiest detective is certainly putting all she's got into solving the death ...

• Jan-1996
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A HUNGER FOR JUSTICE Desiree Shapiro is no lightweight when it comes to crime. At five foot two and pleasingly plump, she always takes on cases she can sink her teeth into. That's why she is so reluctant to investigate the death of little Catherin...

• Apr-1995
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A DISCRIMINATING TASTE FOR MURDER Desiree Shapiro, New York's full-figured P.I., is dead set against taking another murder case. But her old friend Peter Winters just needs Desiree to figure out who got killed. His fiancee, Mary Ann, and her ident...

• Nov-1994
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A STEADY DIET OF SUDDEN DEATH Desiree Shapiro, New York PI, is no hard-boiled shamus. She has dimples in her knees, elbows, and some unmentionable places. Desiree is a chubby gumshoe who has a mind as sharp as a Cuisinart and a queen-sized talent ...