@book{869,
  keywords = {Pittsburgh Pirates, organized crime, writers, publishing industry, editors, assassins, The Isaly's Company},
  author = {Martha Grimes},
  title = {Foul Matter},
  abstract = {Best-selling author Pau Giverney agrees to sign with a new publisher if it agrees to terminate another author, Ned Isaly. The complicated scheme unfolds: a hit will be put on Ned Isaly, who is back in Pittsburgh, his hometown, to research a book. The city and its beloved Isaly Ice Cream Company play a major role in the plot. “[A] send-up of the publishing industry,” writes the <em>New York Times</em>, “with characters, her publicist says coyly, who may bear a resemblance to real people.” },
  year = {2003},
  pages = {372 p.},
  publisher = {Viking},
  address = {New York},
  note = {In the 1990s, Grimes was dropped by Alfred A. Knopf, publisher of her popular 18-books series about the British detective Richard Jury.},
  language = {English},
}