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Down for the Count

A Delilah West Novel

by Maxine O'Callaghan

ISBN: 0312168209
ISBN-13: 9780312168209
Format: Hardcover

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"A no-frills tale that's as good a marriage of detective work and domestic problems as you're likely to see this season."

   -- Kirkus

"There's nothing fancy about these books and little original to the characters, but O'Callaghan pushes a story along, and captures a multi-cultural California landscape of freeways and fast food, one that reeks of money and stinks of pain and poverty."    -- Paul Skenazy

   -- Washington Post Book World

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 1997
Size: 5.75 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 0.9 pounds
Pages: 229

Publisher's Notes

Street-savvy Delilah West can't stay out of trouble in this sixth mystery in the series. First she's in a mall when a gunman opens fire, then she finds herself enmeshed in murder, kidnapping, and romance. Things are getting too hot even for this smart, sassy PI to handle.

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Down For the Count

O'Callaghan, Maxine

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St. Martin's Press, 1997. ( hb with dj, dj in acid fre cover, in very good cond. ) ISBN # 0312168209 (more information)

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