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    Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)
    Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)
    Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)
    Ebook19 pages13 minutes

    Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)

    By Laura Lippman

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    A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye

    For the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories.

    Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own (four stories about places outside of Baltimore); My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore (four stories and a profile)—the inimitable Tess Monaghan, along with some old friends and new faces, is back solving crime.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 3, 2009
    ISBN9780061846021
    Author

    Laura Lippman

    Since Laura Lippman’s debut, she has been recognized as a distinctive voice in mystery fiction and named one of the “essential” crime writers of the last 100 years. Stephen King called her “special, even extraordinary,” and Gillian Flynn wrote, “She is simply a brilliant novelist.” Her books have won most of the major awards in her field and been translated into more than twenty-five languages. She lives in Baltimore and New Orleans with her teenager.

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      Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft) - Laura Lippman

      Dear Penthouse Forum

      (A First Draft)

      From the Short Story Collection

      Hardly Knew Her

      Laura Lippman

      Contents

      Begin Reading Dear Penthouse Forum (A First Draft)

      About the Author

      Books by Laura Lippman

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      DEAR PENTHOUSE FORUM

      (A FIRST DRAFT)

      You won’t believe this, but this really did happen to me just last fall, and all because I was five minutes late, which seemed like a tragedy at the time. It’s only five minutes, that’s what I kept telling the woman behind the counter, who couldn’t be bothered to raise her gaze from her computer screen and make eye contact with me. Which is too bad, because I don’t need much to be charming, but I need something to work with. Why did they make so many keystrokes, anyway, these ticket clerks? What’s in the computer that makes them frown so? I had the printout for my e-ticket, and I kept shoving it across the counter, and

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