Authors: Annette Meyers.
Mass Market Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Edition: Reprint

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    Poet Olivia Brown is determined to experience everything her neighborhood has to offer. She writes her poems, acts in Eugene ONeills new plays, and spends her nights in a speakeasy called Chumleys. Thats where Olivia is headed one night when she literally trips over the body of a dead woman, and finds herself on the trail of a killer who is planning a personal revenge....

Authors: Carolyn G. Hart. Ralph McInerny. Rochelle Majer Krich. Carole Nelson Douglas. K. K. Beck. P. M. Carlson. Kathy Hogan Trocheck. Linda Grant. Annette Meyers. Elizabeth Daniels Squire.
Mass Market Paperback, 273 pages
Publisher: Pocket Books
Publication Date: 1995-05-01


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    An anthology of original mystery stories includes the writings of such authors as Annette Meyers, Kochelle Majer Krich, K. K. Beck, Carole Nelson Douglas, P. M. Carlson, Linda Grant, and Ralph McInerny. ...

Authors: Maan Meyers.
Hardcover, 306 pages
Publisher: Replica Books
Publication Date: 2001-04


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    The apparent suicide of a tavern owner and a mysterious fire send Dutch sheriff Tonneman, a resident of 1664 Manhattan, on a hunt for a culprit, while British ships sail into the harbor threatening Dutch possession....

Authors: Maan Meyers.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Replica Books
Publication Date: 2001-04


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    In the fourth novel in the author's highly praised historical mystery series set in colonial New York, Pieter Tonneman and his wife Racquel become the targets of a killer, amidst a witchcraft scare and a wave of anti-Semitism....

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Hardcover, 298 pages
Publisher: Five Star Trade
Publication Date: 2004-03


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    A Mystery Guild Featured Alternate

As an oil painting ages the paint may become increasingly transparent, revealing the ghost of a previous image beneath. These images are called "repentances" - as is this haunting novel in which the sins of the past will not stay buried. On the eve of World War II, Jewish immigrant Nathan Ebanholz makes the final payment on his wife and baby daughter's passage to New York. But Nathan's joy is short-lived: when their ship sails, Miri and Rayzela are not on board....

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Hardcover, 346 pages
Publisher: Five Star (ME)
Publication Date: 2005-02-21

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Hardcover, 290 pages
Publisher: Mysterious Press
Publication Date: 2001-01


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    Greenwich Village is decked with snow and mistletoe in December of 1920. Olivia Brown is once again drawn into intrigue when a nanny, employed by one of her friends, is found murdered. Olivias investigation reveals not only some dark family secrets, but a criminal organization called the Black Hand. Did the young woman die at the hands of thugs, or one of Olivias friends?...

    Olivia Brown (Oliver to her friends)--bohemian poet, advocate of women's rights and free love, and connoisseur of bootleg gin--has the unpleasant habit of stumbling across dead bodies. When she finds Fordy and Kate Vaudes' demure nanny, Adelle, hanging from a tree during a country house weekend, Olivia is sure suicide is the wrong assumption. After all, why would Adelle hang herself with a man's leather belt?

Back in Greenwich Village, Oliver and her housemate, private detective Harry Melville, plunge into an investigation that takes them from Oliver's gently gin- soaked literary world to an array of nefarious dens of iniquity. Adelle, it turns out, was Adeline Zimmerman, former Pinkerton detective; Daisy, one of the guests at that country weekend, was Adeline's sister; and both Zimmerman women were having an affair with Lester Nolan, the corrupt cop ("a wax model of a hero in human clothing") who's doing the commissioner a favor by looking into the murder. What (or whom) was Adeline investigating? What has caused the sudden tension between Fordy and Kate? And who, really, is Celia, the beautiful photographer who drifts in and out of Oliver's life like a bewitching muse?

As Olivia tries to trace a path through Village society (where everyone knows everyone else, and serial alliances and misalliances are so common that "It was like putting a light to a single match in a row of matches and watching one catch fire, then another, and another until the whole parcel was ablaze"), she finds herself rubbing elbows with an assortment of picturesque characters, from mobsters to authors. One of these charming individuals is a deadly threat--but which?

The novel is refreshingly free of glaring anachronisms, and author Annette Meyers has obviously done her research on Village literary life in the '20s. But Meyers is no Fitzgerald, nor even a Michael Cunningham. Though the novel preens itself a trifle ostentatiously on its periodicity, tending toward heavy-handed references to the Great War, it fails to capture the poignantly fragile glamour of the era, with its heady whirlwind of flappers, expatriate authors, and jazz and its haunting legacy of trench warfare, poison gas, and dislocated modernity. As long as it doesn't try too hard, however, the Olivia Brown series is a perfectly pleasant diversion, as amusing as--and less rigorous than--the Charleston. --Kelly Flynn...

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Paperback, pages
Publisher: Crimeline
Publication Date: 1996-06-01


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    Author Annette Meyers once again brings her first-hand Broadway experience to bear in this sizzling new Smith and Wetzon mystery. Leslie Wetzon is dusting off her tap shoes for a good cause: a benefit revival of the hit Broadway musical "Combinations," complete with as many of the original cast stars as Wetzon's headhunting talents can unearth. But when she digs up not the missing leading lady but a trunk full of bones, it seems someone may be targeting Wetzon for a featured role not in a musical comedy, but in a very deadly murder plot, indeed....

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Hardcover, 340 pages
Publisher: Doubleday
Publication Date: 1992-05-01
Edition: 1st

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    Headhunters Smith and Wetzon are back on the trail, this time hunting down the killer of one of their clients, a powerful stockbroker found murdered in Central Park shortly after he was placed in a new position....

Authors: Annette Meyers.
Hardcover, pages
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Publication Date: 2001-01-01