A Slash of Scarlet - Hardcover

Jacobs, Nancy Baker

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399137335 ISBN 13: 9780399137334

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1992

Synopsis

In the sequel to The Turquoise Tattoo, Devon is hired to help the victims of a romantic con man recover their money, and she is soon tracking the man to Monterey, posing as a wealthy young widow. 10,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Nancy Baker Jacobs is the award-winning author of 13 crime novels, including the Devon MacDonald private eye series; FLASH POINT (featuring arson investigator Susan Delancey) and STAR STRUCK (introducing "Hollywood Star" reporter Quinn Collins), both first installments in new mystery series, STAR SEARCH (a Quinn Collins novella); and seven suspense novels. Her latest suspense offering, RICOCHET, was chosen by the Mystery Writers of America as a finalist for the Mary Higgins Clark Award.
As Nancy C. Baker, she's also written six nonfiction books on subjects ranging from black market adoption to breast cancer.
Nancy Baker Jacobs has worked as a private detective, a university professor and administrator, and a journalist. She lives on California's Monterey Peninsula.

From Publishers Weekly:

St. Paul private eye Devon MacDonald follows her debut in The Turquoise Tattoo with this ingeniously plotted case. When two women show up in her office claiming to have been romanced and then bilked by the same con man--one Brentwood J. Peters--Devon's feminist outrage fuels her professional curiosity, and before long she has tracked down yet a third victim. Using clues drawn from phone records, charge-card statements and canceled checks, the feisty gumshoe picks up Peters's scent in a wealthy Monterey, Calif., neighborhood and heads west to set a trap for him, advising her clients to be ready to follow when she calls. Passing herself off as a prospective buyer of property on his street, Devon quickly establishes a relationship with Peters remarkably like the ones her clients have described. Her plan to lure him to a romantic cabin-in-the-woods getaway and there confront him with his three victims backfires horribly when someone slits his throat. Before she can determine the murderer's identity, Devon turns up still more victims of the con man whose misogynistic behavior gave the novel's women such good cause to welcome his downfall.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0399137335
• ISBN 13: 9780399137334
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 235