"delightful historical amateur sleuth"
After eloping, Bob and Paige Turner moved into a small
Brooklyn apartment for a month of connubial bliss before he
went to boot camp and ended up in a firefight in Korea
where he got killed. Two and a half years later, his widow
Paige is living in a small duplex apartment on Delancey
Street working as an editorial assistant for Daring
Detective magazine. Paige's real goal is to be a staff
writer and create true crime stories but in 1954 women were
regarded as capable of only being office help. When Babs Costock's murdered body is found in Woolworth's
and her picture is run in the newspapers, Paige recognizes
her as a woman who came to the magazine's office in the
hopes of getting a job modeling for the cover. Paige
thinks she's found the story that can get her a promotion
so she starts investigating the victim's life. She learns
the down side of a case when her own life is threatened
more
than once by various characters who want her to stop
snooping. The first Paige Turner mystery is a real page-turner.
Anyone who has lived in New York City in the fifties will
realize that the author has captured the essence of the
time and place. The protagonist is a gutsy and strong
willed woman who refuses to let the male dominated power
elite keep her down or stop her from getting what she
wants. MURDERERS PREFER BLONDES is a delightful historical
amateur sleuth tale that is very atmospheric and plays up
the nostalgia angle. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted June 4, 2003
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