Caught Dead in Philadelphia

by Gillian Roberts · 1987 · 208 pages

Book 1 of the Amanda Pepper series

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Anthony Award winner for Best First Mystery Novel — the debut of the Philadelphia-set Amanda Pepper

series.

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Amanda Pepper, English teacher at Philly Prep, does not hate her life. But when a fellow teacher who's engaged to a senate candidate, begs for rest on Amanda's couch, then dies, things could be better. Then the police suspect her of murder, she begins her own investigation, and ends by teaching a certain blue-eyed cop a thing or two....

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Genre
mysterycozy mysterycrimehumorthriller
Themes
teachers
Setting
1980spennsylvaniaphiladelphia
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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