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    Caveat Emptor: And Other Stories
    Caveat Emptor: And Other Stories
    Caveat Emptor: And Other Stories
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    Caveat Emptor: And Other Stories

    By Joan Hess

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    Delightfully deadly short fiction from the pen of Joan Hess, creator of Maggody, Arkansas.

    Althea is caught in a romance writer’s worst nightmare: She’s been trapped in one of her own melodramatic creations. Around her, strapping men chase after elegant women whose bosoms heave and whose bodices beg to be ripped. There’s no television, no women’s lib, and absolutely no escape. Worst of all, Althea fits right in. Everyone recognizes her as the penniless orphan rescued from a cruel uncle by a charming nobleman. Althea would rather be dead—and if she’s lucky, she will be soon.
     
    The creator of the Claire Malloy Mysteries, which chronicle the adventures of a bookselling sleuth, Joan Hess knows better than anyone how dangerous romance novels can be. In “Death of a Romance Writer” and the other six stories in this volume, she redefines what it means to die laughing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMysteriousPress.com Open Road
    Release dateJul 5, 2016
    ISBN9781504037310
    Caveat Emptor: And Other Stories
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    Joan Hess

    Joan Hess was the author of the Claire Malloy Mysteries and the Arly Hanks Mysteries, formally known as the Maggody Mysteries. She was a winner of the American Mystery Award and the Agatha Award (for which she was nominated five times), a member of Sisters in Crime, and a former president of the American Crime Writers League. She died in November 2017, four months after the publication of The Painted Queen.

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