A Deadline for Murder
(1991)(The first book in the Wanda Mallory Mystery series)
A novel by Valerie Frankel
Hard-core flirt? Check. Arbiter of fashion? Check. Best friend? Mama - a pearl-handled .22 (oh, and her cat, Otis).
Wanda Mallory is the tough-talking, chain-smoking, funkalicious owner of the Do It Right Private Detective Agency - practicing her trade on the mean streets of NYC.
Always ready for a good time and a good friend, Wanda finds herself embroiled in the murder of her former employer and friend, Belle Beatrice, the beautiful (and bitchy) publisher of the women's soft-core porn magazine, Midnight.
According to Belle's strangely prophetic will, Wanda has a one-week deadline to catch the killer. Motivation? (besides friendship, of course!) Half a million bucks.
From Times Square to Soho, Wanda cracks wise on the hunt for Belle's murderer. Obscure and obscene clues take Wanda and her photographer sidekick, Alex Beaudine, on an erotic chase through NYC...as long as they stay one step ahed of the police in a mad dash to stop the killer before he strikes again!!
Genre: Mystery
Wanda Mallory is the tough-talking, chain-smoking, funkalicious owner of the Do It Right Private Detective Agency - practicing her trade on the mean streets of NYC.
Always ready for a good time and a good friend, Wanda finds herself embroiled in the murder of her former employer and friend, Belle Beatrice, the beautiful (and bitchy) publisher of the women's soft-core porn magazine, Midnight.
According to Belle's strangely prophetic will, Wanda has a one-week deadline to catch the killer. Motivation? (besides friendship, of course!) Half a million bucks.
From Times Square to Soho, Wanda cracks wise on the hunt for Belle's murderer. Obscure and obscene clues take Wanda and her photographer sidekick, Alex Beaudine, on an erotic chase through NYC...as long as they stay one step ahed of the police in a mad dash to stop the killer before he strikes again!!
Genre: Mystery
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