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Summary: A real page-turner
Review: After eloping, Bob and Paige Turner moved into a small Brooklyn apartment for a month of connubial bliss before he went to boot camp and ended up in a firefight in Korea where he got killed. Two and a half years later, his widow Paige is living in a small duplex apartment on Delancey Street working as an editorial assistant for Daring Detective magazine. Paige's real goal is to be a staff writer and create true crime stories but in 1954 women were regarded as capable of only being office help.When Babs Costock's murdered body is found in Woolworth's and her picture is run in the newspapers, Paige recognizes her as a woman who came to the magazine's office in the hopes of getting a job modeling for the cover. Paige thinks she's found the story that can get her a promotion so she starts investigating the victim's life. She learns the down side of a case of her own life is threatened more than once by various characters who want her to stop snooping. The first Paige Turner mystery is a real page-turner. Anyone who has lived in New York City in the fifties will realize that the author has captured the essence of the time and place. The protagonist is a gutsy and strong willed woman who refuses to let the male dominated power elite keep her down or stop her from getting what she wants. MURDERERS PREFER BLONDES is a delightful historical amateur sleuth tale that is very atmospheric and plays up the nostalgia angle. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Matetsky does it again!!
Review: Amanda Matetsky has truely done it again. After reading her first book "The Perfect Body", I thought maybe this was beginners luck...but without a doubt she has done it once again.
It's brilliant, witty and above all a perfect capture of life and murder...in the fiftees!
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Summary: cute and fun
Review: An easy fun read for when you don't want to think too much. Good descriptions and mood setting. Almost a perfect job of convincing the reader you are in the fifties. The "little woman" sydrome got a little old. But I guess it's hard for me to identify with a woman from back then.
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Summary: cute and fun
Review: An easy fun read for when you don't want to think too much. Good descriptions and mood setting. Almost a perfect job of convincing the reader you are in the fifties. The "little woman" sydrome got a little old. But I guess it's hard for me to identify with a woman from back then.
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Summary: Hooray for Paige
Review: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a terrific, fast-moving, thrill-filled mystery, with just the right touch of camp. Paige Turner, the heroine of this new series, works at a detective magazine in New York in the fifties, and Matetsky brings the place and period to vivid life. Long may this bright, brave sleuth have us turning pages!
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Summary: Hooray for Paige
Review: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a terrific, fast-moving, thrill-filled mystery, with just the right touch of camp. Paige Turner, the heroine of this new series, works at a detective magazine in New York in the fifties, and Matetsky brings the place and period to vivid life. Long may this bright, brave sleuth have us turning pages!
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Summary: FANTASTIC New Nostalgic Series...
Review: I have already pre-ordered the second book in this series, "Murder is a Girl's Best Friend," which is coming out in July 2004! Amanda Matetsky's new series, starring "Paige Turner" (groan...), set in New York 1954, is THAT good! Amanda Matetsky does a wonderfully job of turning back the hands of time and taking us back to an era where women were just on the brink of being independent. This story is filled with "little white gloves, Hopalong Cassidy, lunch counters at Woolworth's, the automat, and the BMT." All the references of the mid-1950's... A time when Paige is expected to make coffee for her male co-workers at "Daring Detective" magazine as she fends off their passes. A time when she must secretly plot to get published because she is a woman. (It always amazes me how far women have come in such a short time!) When a beautiful blonde model is murdered, Paige almost feels as though the victim is telling her to solve her murder - so that she can bring justice to Babs Comstock and get published as well. I LOVED this book. The concept was so original and the plot was refreshingly creative. The characters of Paige Turner, Dan Street and best friend, Abby are just terrific! I felt as though the author kept Paige totally in character with the times of the 1950's as ALL women were pretty much "the little woman" in those days. I love how Paige earns the respect of Dect. Dan Street for her intellectual and deductive aptitude in this mystery. I can't wait to see how these characters evolve. I hope that we hear something of little Ricky in the books to come as well. Amanda Matetsky has a great new nostalgic series with Paige Turner, which will leave you turning the pages quickly as well!
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Summary: FANTASTIC New Nostalgic Series...
Review: I have already pre-ordered the second book in this series, "Murder is a Girl's Best Friend," which is coming out in July 2004! Amanda Matetsky's new series, starring "Paige Turner" (groan...), set in New York 1954, is THAT good! Amanda Matetsky does a wonderfully job of turning back the hands of time and taking us back to an era where women were just on the brink of being independent. This story is filled with "little white gloves, Hopalong Cassidy, lunch counters at Woolworth's, the automat, and the BMT." All the references of the mid-1950's... A time when Paige is expected to make coffee for her male co-workers at "Daring Detective" magazine as she fends off their passes. A time when she must secretly plot to get published because she is a woman. (It always amazes me how far women have come in such a short time!) When a beautiful blonde model is murdered, Paige almost feels as though the victim is telling her to solve her murder - so that she can bring justice to Babs Comstock and get published as well. I LOVED this book. The concept was so original and the plot was refreshingly creative. The characters of Paige Turner, Dan Street and best friend, Abby are just terrific! I felt as though the author kept Paige totally in character with the times of the 1950's as ALL women were pretty much "the little woman" in those days. I love how Paige earns the respect of Dect. Dan Street for her intellectual and deductive aptitude in this mystery. I can't wait to see how these characters evolve. I hope that we hear something of little Ricky in the books to come as well. Amanda Matetsky has a great new nostalgic series with Paige Turner, which will leave you turning the pages quickly as well!
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Summary: FANTASTIC New Nostalgic Series...
Review: I have already pre-ordered the second book in this series, "Murder is a Girl's Best Friend," which is coming out in July 2004! Amanda Matetsky's new series, starring "Paige Turner" (groan...), set in New York 1954, is THAT good! Amanda Matetsky does a wonderfully job of turning back the hands of time and taking us back to an era where women were just on the brink of being independent. This story is filled with "little white gloves, Hopalong Cassidy, lunch counters at Woolworth's, the automat, and the BMT." All the references of the mid-1950's... A time when Paige is expected to make coffee for her male co-workers at "Daring Detective" magazine as she fends off their passes. A time when she must secretly plot to get published because she is a woman. (It always amazes me how far women have come in such a short time!) When a beautiful blonde model is murdered, Paige almost feels as though the victim is telling her to solve her murder - so that she can bring justice to Babs Comstock and get published as well. I LOVED this book. The concept was so original and the plot was refreshingly creative. The characters of Paige Turner, Dan Street and best friend, Abby are just terrific! I felt as though the author kept Paige totally in character with the times of the 1950's as ALL women were pretty much "the little woman" in those days. I love how Paige earns the respect of Dect. Dan Street for her intellectual and deductive aptitude in this mystery. I can't wait to see how these characters evolve. I hope that we hear something of little Ricky in the books to come as well. Amanda Matetsky has a great new nostalgic series with Paige Turner, which will leave you turning the pages quickly as well!
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Summary: A fun, engaging read
Review: I loved this book. It is a delightful mystery, with a bit of romance thrown in. The protagonist, Paige Turner, is an irresistable character... irreverent, but likeable, and FUNNY. This is the type of book I pick up when I want to relax, forget MY life and become totally engrossed in someone else's. I read it straight through and enjoyed every minute.
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