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Too Darn Hot

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by Sandra Scoppettone
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I’d had two murders since last spring, solved them both. The first one was prime and it got a lotta attention in the fish wrappers, so I had a bunch of clients for awhile. Just cause people saw my name in the paper they figured I was the best (which I might be). Not bad for a twenty-six-year-old gal from Newark, New Jersey.
It’s the middle of World War II, but not all the killing is happening overseas. In a sweltering New York City summer, scrappy steno-turned-sleuth Faye Quick–kicked upstairs when her boss ships out–takes on a new case that would make even the most experienced P.I. sweat bullets.
It all starts with a beautiful woman. Heartbroken Claire Turner turns on the waterworks in Faye’s office, begging for help in finding her beau, Private Charlie Ladd, gone missing while on leave from Uncle Sam’s army. But when Faye busts into Charlie’s hotel room, she doesn’t find anyone–anyone alive, that is.
But where’s Charlie? Because the corpse in the hotel room might not be him. And that leads Faye to wonder if the unfortunate stiff was Charlie’s target practice.
In a case with more twists, starts, and stops than the Third Avenue El, Faye learns that some shocking truths are hidden behind the fog of war–a personal war being fought on the home front.
Brimming over with big band music, hairdos in snoods, and unfiltered smokes–the same irresistible 1940s detail that made This Dame for Hire such a treat–the second adventure of indefatigable Faye solidifies her status as one of Sandra Scoppettone’s most appealing characters. Too Darn Hot is sizzling fun readers are sure to make Quick work of.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Faye Quick Mystery

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    December 18, 2007

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      • ISBN: 9780307417589

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      • ISBN: 9780307417589
      • File size: 401 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 3, 2006
      Like Scoppettone's This Dame for Hire
      (2005), which introduced Faye Quick, the semitough New York steno who turns private eye after her boss goes off to fight in WWII, this sequel vividly recreates 1943 Manhattan—the rumble of the subway train, the rattle of the taxi in a city not slowed down for a second by a war or an oppressive heat wave. Faye's voice is again pitch perfect, but the story isn't as strong as the earlier novel's. Claire Turner, a blonde beauty who works as a salesgirl at Wanamaker's department store, plays on Faye's sympathies to get her to agree to spend some of her time looking for Claire's missing GI boyfriend, Charlie Ladd. (Movie names dot every page: not only Turner and Ladd but folks called Widmark, Byington, Duff and Cummings have roles.) Of course, the too-good-to-be-true Charlie turns out to be just that, murders are committed both coolly and in hot blood, and all the while our very interesting Faye does a great imitation of the sort of dame Ida Lupino was born to play.

    • Library Journal

      May 1, 2006
      Fast-talking Faye Quick returns in this follow-up to "This Dame for Hire", part of Scoppettone's new mystery series set in World War II -era New York City. This time, Faye is hired to find a missing soldier on leave in the city. What she discovers instead is kidnapping and murder. She struggles to get the truth from witnesses, the evidence, and her clients even as she faces disbelief and discrimination for being a female gumshoe. But little depresses Faye, who can wisecrack with the best of them, including tough-talking cops, weary waitresses, and other colorful characters. Another major character is wartime New York, where everyone smokes, drinks, and wilts in the summer heat. A fun series that uses a light touch with noir conventions. Scoppettone is also the author of the Lauren Laurano series. [See Prepub Alert, "LJ" 3/1/06.]" -Devon Thomas, DevIndexing, Chelsea, MI"

      Copyright 2006 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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