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Title Statement | P.I. on a hot tin roof: a Talba Wallis novel / Julie Smith. |
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Author | Smith, Julie, 1944- |
Publication | New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2005. |
Edition | 1st ed. |
Extent of Item | 304 p. ; |
ISBN | 0765312557 |
Other Number | 1473374 |
General Notes | "Forge." |
Summary | African-American private investigator Talba Wallis goes undercover as a housekeeper to investigate a shady New Orleans judge and his crumbling-genteel household, but then His Honor is found murdered and the action shifts from proving the judge is dirty to finding his killer. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Wallis, Talba (Fictitious character)--Fiction |
Women private investigators--Fiction--Louisiana--New Orleans | |
Justice, Administration of--Fiction--Corrupt practices | |
Judges--Fiction--Crimes against | |
African American women--Fiction | |
Women poets--Fiction | |
By Location | New Orleans (La.)--Fiction |
By Genre | Mystery fiction |
Detective and mystery stories |