This Dame for Hire (34 page)

Donato and Daughter

Beautiful Rage

This Dame for Hire

THE LAUREN LAURANO NOVELS

Everything You Have Is Mine

I’ll Be Leaving You Always

My Sweet Untraceable You

Let’s Face the Music and Die

Gonna Take a Homicidal Journey

FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Trying Hard to Hear You

The Late Great Me

Happy Endings Are All Alike

Long Time Between Kisses

Playing Murder

This Dame for Hire
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2005 by Sandra Scoppettone

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Scoppettone, Sandra.

This dame for hire: a novel of suspense / Sandra Scoppettone.

p. cm.

1. Women private investigators—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939-1945—New York (State)—New York—Fiction. 3. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3569.C586T48 2005

813′.54—dc22 2004046242

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eISBN: 978-0-345-48458-1

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