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Death in Lacquer Red
A Hilda Johansson Mystery
by Jeanne M. Dams
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The first in a new series by Agatha Award winner Jeanne M. Dams features spunky Swedish-American immigrant Hilda Johansson. When Hilda discovers the body of a pious neighbor woman on the edge of the estate where she lives and works as a domestic, she fights a corrupt police force, a strict, class-conscious butler, and her own religious prejudices to catch the killer.
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9781574902402,
Hardcover,
Thomas t Beeler,
2000
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9780802776099,
Paperback,
St Martins Pr,
2001
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9780802733290,
Hardcover,
St Martins Pr,
1999
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Publisher Notes
In DEATH IN LACQUER RED, Agatha Award winning author Jeanne Dams launches a new series that introduces Hilda Johansson, a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family as the twentieth century begins.
Media Reviews
"Built on an enchanting setting and a compelling protagonist, DEATH IN LACQUER RED does not have a quick plot, but rather a logical and satisfying one. To rush this book is to miss its quiet humour and its compassion: it's meant to be savoured, not devoured."
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Well, look at that, will ye!"
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