Implausibly, one of the three top writers in attendance-"Valerie Vanderbilt"-turns out to be Jacqueline's old school-chum Jean, an academic afraid of losing tenure if her pseudonymous secret is bared. Middle-aged librarian Jacqueline Kirby (The Seventh Sinner, The Murders of Richard III), in need of a tax-deductible vacation, comes from Nebraska to N.Y.C. 20), this mystery-comedy is set at a convention of paperback-romance writers-but veteran Peters gets far fewer laughs out of the genre's foibles than newcomer Papazoglou did. Like Orania Papazoglou's Sweet, Savage Death (p.
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