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L.A. dead

Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington's trip to Venice, with a fiery Mafia princess, is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one.

Main Author: Woods, Stuart
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Signet Book, 2001.
Subjects:
Barrington, Stone > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Private investigators > New York (State) > New York > Fiction.
New York (N.Y.) > Fiction.
Venice (Italy) > Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Summary: Cop-turned-lawyer-and-investigator Stone Barrington's trip to Venice, with a fiery Mafia princess, is cut short by a frantic phone call from half a world away. A celebrity murder has Los Angeles in an uproar and has a former flame pining for Stone's help-in more ways than one.
Physical Description: 451 p.
ISBN: 9780451204110
0451204115
Author Notes: Stuart Woods was born in Manchester, Georgia on January 9, 1938. He received a B. A. in sociology from the University of Georgia in 1959. He worked in the advertising business and eventually wrote two non-fiction books entitled Blue Water, Green Skipper and A Romantic's Guide to the Country Inns of Britain and Ireland. His first novel, Chiefs, was published in 1981. It won an Edgar Award and was made into a TV miniseries starring Charlton Heston. His other works include the Stone Barrington series, the Holly Barker series, the Will Lee series, the Ed Eagle series, the Rick Barron series and the Teddy Fay series. He won France's Prix de Literature Policiere for Imperfect Strangers. His autobiography, An Extravagant Life, was published in June 2022. Stuart Woods died on July 22, 2022, at his home in Lichfield, Connecticut. He was 84.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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