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035 $a(OCoLC)7159993
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050 4 $aPS3503.E97$bB577 1980
100 1 $aLewis, Lange,$d1915-2003,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe birthday murder /$cby Lange Lewis.
260 $aNew York :$bPerennial Library,$c1980, ©1945.
300 $a206 pages ;$c18 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aThe Perennial Library Mystery Series
508 $aCover design/illustration: Irving Freeman.
520 $aA whodunit is set in the Hollywood movie colony at the height of its Golden Age. A successful writer and a B-movie director seem like the perfect match in the Hollywood hills, and with him working to produce her novel for an upcoming film, the pair's recent marriage isn't the only way that they're connected. But when the husband is found murdered on the wife's birthday, using a method of poisoning that was described in one of her books, Victoria suddenly becomes the main suspect as her new happy life comes crashing down around her. The case appears straightforward from the outside, but the LAPD investigator on the scene finds the truth to be anything but. Though all the signs point to Victoria, there's no motive to be found. Now, to solve the mystery of whodunnit, he'll have to dig beneath the veneer of the household and reveal its inner workings, and to understand the deadly drama that unfolded just beneath the surface.
534 $pOriginally published:$cIndianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1945.
600 10 $aTuck, Richard$c(Fictitious character)$vFiction.
650 0 $aPoisoning$vFiction.
650 0 $aMotion picture producers and directors$xCrimes against$vFiction.
650 0 $aWomen authors$vFiction.
650 0 $aPolice$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$vFiction.
650 0 $aMurder$xInvestigation$zCalifornia$zLos Angeles$vFiction.
651 0 $aHollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)$vFiction.
651 0 $aLos Angeles (Calif.)$vFiction.
655 7 $aDetective and mystery fiction$2fast
655 7 $aFiction$2fast
852 $aBPL - Special Collections$bNonfiction - In Library Use Only$kHOUGHTON MIFFLIN$o9$p39999100846557$rIn$wBook$y1$7False$90
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