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Cece Caruso Mystery Series
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"I Dreamed I Married Perry Mason" [#1=2004] Researcher Cece Caruso is working on a biography of Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of the Perry Mason mystery tales. She stumbles upon a mis-filed appeal for Gardner's help to prove a convicted prisoner innocent of his wife's murder, and when she looks into the 1958 'cold case', there is a new murder ... Avon mass pb [3/2005] for $6.29 Wm. Morrow 8¼x5¾ hardcover [6/2004] out of print/many, many used

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"Not A Girl Detective" mystery novel [#2=2005] Professional researcher Cece Caruso is asked to speak at the Nancy Drew fan convention in Palm Springs. When she wangles a visit to the home of a reclusive collector, she arrives to find a bullet in the man's forehead and his boyfriend missing. Even though 'not a detective', she solves the case with the help of her gal-pals Lael & Bridget, and policeman boyfriend Peter. Avon mass pb [3/2006] for $6.99 Wm. Morrow 8¼x5¾ hardcover [5/2005] out of print/many, many used

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"Shamus In The Green Room" [#3=2006] Professional researcher Cece Caruso's new biography about mystery author Dashiell Hammett is being made into a movie; when the male star's childhood sweetheart (and sister of his manager) is murdered, he asks Cece for help. Avon mass pb [5/2007] for $6.99 Wm. Morrow 8¼x5¾ hardcover [5/2006] out of print/many used

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"Christietown: A Novel About Vintage Clothing, Romance, Mystery & Agatha Christie" [#4=2007] Hired to help promote a new Cotswold village-style housing tract in the Mojave Desert, Cece Caruso stages an Agatha Christie murder mystery starring Miss Marple on opening day – and the leading lady ends up dead! Harper 8x5½ pb [6/2007] for $11.16 Harper 8¼x5½ hardcover [6/2007] out of print/used

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"Dial H For Hitchcock" [#5=2009] After a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo", professional researcher Cece Caruso finds somebody else's cell-phone in her purse. She tries to return the phone to its owner in Beechwood Canyon, arriving just in time to witness the woman's murder. HarperCollins 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $11.19

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