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Epitaph for a Dream

  • ISBN-13: 9781493061952
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
  • By Terry Mort
  • Price: AUD $40.99
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  • Local release date: 01/12/2021
  • Format: Paperback 306 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Christianity [HRC]
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The eve of World War II. A Hollywood producers murdered wife. Her husbands guilty memory of a shipboard romance. A stolen painting signed "Picasso." French gangsters. A beautiful courtesan. A shoot-out in a brasserie. All these and more confront Private Detective Riley Fitzhugh as he travels from Hollywood to the Riviera, Paris, and London in search of his clients vanished dream girl and some answers. Is the painting a genuine Picasso or just a clever forgery? Who is responsible for the corpses that keep littering his path and complicating the investigation? And whatever happened to Amanda Billingsgate?

Terry Mort is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Michigan, where he received an MA in English and began work on a PhD. After grad school he served as an officer in the US Navy. Deployed to Southeast Asia, he saw a variety of action there. Mort has written a number of non-fiction histories, widely praised in the national press. He has also written several novels.

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